The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office has made a charging decision in the 2024 shooting of Dexter Reed by Chicago police officers.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke will announce a charging decision in the case on Wednesday afternoon.

In that March 21, 2024 shooting, a Civilian Office of Police Accountability investigation determined that Reed, who had been pulled over for “purportedly not wearing a seatbelt,” had fired shots at Chicago police officers who were part of a tactical unit in the city’s 11 th District.

Those officers then returned fire, with COPA finding that a total of 96 shots were fired at Reed, who was struck 13 times. One of the officers fired at least 50 times and reloaded multiple times, according to the COPA report.

The shooting raised seriou

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