Waukegan police shooting video released, victims' attorneys question officer's credibility

Police body camera and other footage released Wednesday from the Chicago-area officer-involved shooting involving a woman and her boyfriend, who later died, does not show the actual shooting – only moments after – and leaves questions surrounding the credibility of the officer’s narrative, lawyers for the couple said Wednesday.

Attorneys Ben Crump and Antonio Romanucci, who represent Tafara Williams and the family of her deceased boyfriend, Marcellis Stinnette, said the Waukegan police officer who shot the couple during what the department said started as am Oct.

On Wednesday, Romanucci, Crump and the victims’ families viewed what did exist of the body cam video, as well as dashcam footage from the shooting.

A Waukegan Police Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to Fox News' request seeking comment. The videos were made public Wednesday after the families of victims had a chance to view the footage first. .

“What we saw,” Crump said Wednesday, “was bits and pieces.".

He was fired on Friday by Waukegan police Chief Wayne Walles, who said he had committed “multiple police and procedure violations.”.

Officials previously said Williams, 20, was driving and Stinnette, her 19-year-old boyfriend and the father of their 7-month-old baby, was in the passenger seat when they were shot during a traffic stop, while both were seated inside the vehicle.

Police said the second officer opened fire out of fear for his own safety when the vehicle moved in reverse toward him.

Dashcam footage from the vehicle of the officer who opened fire shows a car traveling at a high rate of speed before ending up on a sidewalk?

As the officer pulls up near the passenger side of the car, the driver of the other vehicle reverses.

The officer shouts and several shots are heard before the vehicle is heard crashing into a building. .

On Wednesday, when asked whether the car was seen in any of the footage reversing toward the officer, Crump said that “seems to be a false narrative about him fearing for his life because she was in reverse.

Romanucci said he has reason to believe the police department was basing its belief solely on the narrative of the Hispanic officer, who he said has “zero credibility.”.

“Once the shooting police officer turned on his body camera you heard him say, shout across the way to Tafara, ‘You tried to run me over.’ That is the false narrative that we continue to talk about,” Romanucci said.

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Williams said Tuesday that after being stopped by one officer while smoking in the car in front of Williams’ home, she and Stinnette raised their hands to show they were unarmed.

Marcellis Stinnette's grand mother Sherrellis Stinnette speaks during protest rally for Marcellis Stinnette who killed by Waukegan Police Tuesday in Waukegan, Ill., Thursday, Oct

She said that she could hear Stinnette breathing and begged the police to take him to the hospital first because he had recently had surgery, but her pleas were ignored