Ex-Philadelphia police officer pleads guilty in shooting death of 12-year-old boy
- Edsaul Mendoza, a former Philadelphia police officer, plead guilty to third-degree murder for fatally shooting a 12-year-old boy in the back in March 2022, court documents reveal.
- Mendoza, one of four plainclothes officers, allegedly engaged in a "tactically unsound" foot chase of the boy and shot at him three times despite the boy throwing away the gun, according to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.
- Krasner stated that when Mendoza was charged, the 12-year-old boy was unarmed and on the ground at the time of the shooting.
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