Outrage grows over the death of Adam Toledo, the boy shot by Chicago police

Adam Toledo, the 13-year-old Latino boy who was shot to death by Chicago police last week, dreamed of being a cop.

“He was cheerful, he loved animals.

He liked to build his legos,

”his mother, Elizabeth Toledo, recalled tearfully over the weekend.

"Adam was a sweet and caring boy ... He would not want anyone else to be hurt or killed in his name," she added.

As the days go by, the outrage over the death of the minor grows.

Relatives demanded again on Monday that the videos of the agents' body cameras be revealed.

In the neighborhood of La Villita, in Chicago, known by the immigrant community of Mexican origin, many people gathered near where the events took place to honor Toledo and demand that there be transparency in the investigation.

“The loss of a child is very hard.

He was a child

”, lamented his uncle Jesús García.

The family has been asking since this weekend that the videos of the body cameras carried by the policemen who shot them be made public.

An audio that Noticias Telemundo had access to showed how one of them asked that the cameras be turned off.

"Adam was a loved and supported 13-year-old boy. He lived with his mother, his 90-year-old grandfather and two of his brothers. His father was part of his life. They all loved him very much. The Toledo family is a very close family. They take care of each other. Adam attended Gary's elementary school, where he had the support of his teachers and his classmates. Adam was not alone, "said one of his lawyers after Monday's press conference in which Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke.

Lightfoot assured that these tragedies show the urgent need to reform the regulations that agents follow during chases and ordered the department to catch whoever sold the gun to the young man.

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"We will find the person who put the gun in Adam's hand," Lightfoot said Monday at a news conference in the West Side neighborhood.

"

An adult put a gun in the hand of a child

, a young, impressionable child who should not be given lethal force," he added.

But the mayor suggested that the teenager may have been involved in

gangs

before that night and that a member of the gang may have given him the gun.

What is known so far

According to the police, on March 29 at dawn, agents responded to the call of a shooting and when they arrived at the scene in the La Villita neighborhood, they found Toledo and a 21-year-old young man, who was later arrested for a crime less resistance to authority.

A manhunt broke out and it was then that an agent fatally shot Toledo in the chest

.

A weapon was recovered at the scene.

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The police officer who shot was placed on administrative duties while an outside agency, which has a body camera video in its possession, conducts an investigation.

The police accountability office, which is investigating the shooting, has said it

will release body camera recordings of the shooting

, first to the boy's family and then to the public.

Police Superintendent David Brown explained Monday why Toledo's age and name were not released until days after his death.

According to him, the boy who was with Adam the night he was killed told police a false name when asked to identify the teenager.

Brown said Toledo's fingerprints did not match any of the police databases.

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Brown said Toledo had escaped at least twice in the days before his death.

Adam's mother reported him

missing

on March 26, but told police the next day that he had returned.

Investigators searching the recently closed missing persons reports contacted the mother after the shooting and she told them she had not seen him in "several days" but had not returned to report him missing.

His body was identified Wednesday at the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.

Attorneys for Toledo's family said Monday night that they were requesting expedited meetings with the police to obtain evidence in the case and that they had not yet received a confirmed time to view the police recordings.

"We will not let the anguish and excitement of the moment interfere with our objective of obtaining the facts," said a joint statement from attorneys Adeena Weiss Ortiz and Joel Hirschhorn.

"We will address all public statements regarding the circumstances of Adam's death once we have the facts before us," they added.

With information from AP and ABC News.