The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office has declined to file charges against Chicago police officers who fired dozens of shots at Dexter Reed in a shooting that roiled the city and drew scrutiny to police policies around traffic stops.

In a memo released Wednesday, the office found that the “evidence is insufficient to support criminal charges against these officers.”

Dexter Reed, 26, was shot 13 times during a traffic stop shortly after 6 p.m. on March 21 by Chicago Police Officers Thomas Spanos, Alexandra Giampapa, Victor Pacheco and Aubrey Webb, according to the memo.

Reed, a former basketball player at Westinghouse College Prep high school, also shot Officer Gregory Saint Louis in the wrist.

The shooting drew condemnation for what some deemed an extreme amount of force. One off

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