*(By Raja Razek and Amy Simonson, CNN) — Philadelphia police provided more details Wednesday on a deadly incident, in which officers chased and shot a boy after a shot was fired into the officers’ car. Police identified the boy as 12-year-old Thomas Siderio Jr., and said in a statement he was shot in the back by an officer during a foot chase and he had a gun.
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Immediately following the shooting in South Philadelphia on Tuesday night, police said they believed the boy who was shot was a teenager.
The shooting happened around 7:24 p.m. as four officers dressed in plain clothes were inside an unmarked car on a surveillance assignment related to a gun investigation, Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Naish said Wednesday during a virtual news briefing.
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