NOW: Milwaukee police release bodycam video of officer shooting 17-year-old armed with rifle

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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) - The Milwaukee Police Department has released body-worn camera video from a September officer-involved shooting that left a 17-year-old injured after police say he ran from officers while armed with a rifle.

The release provides new video from the Sept. 30 incident near South Eighth Street and West Scott Street. The teenager, identified in court records as Jouthem L. Rodriguez-La Court, has since been formally charged in connection with the events leading up to the shooting.

Rodriguez-La Court, 17, is charged with second-degree recklessly endangering safety with use of a dangerous weapon, possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18 as a party to a crime and obstructing an officer.

The incident began shortly after 9:20 p.m. when Milwaukee police received multiple 911 calls reporting gunfire in the 1300 block of South 15th Street.

According to a criminal complaint, investigators later recovered 20 .223-caliber casings clustered in an alley behind a home in the neighborhood.

Police described the area as densely residential, with five homes located within 95 feet of where the casings were recovered. Investigators said they did not find apparent bullet strikes to homes, vehicles or other property.

Witnesses told police a group of people had been gathered in the alley with dirt bikes when an argument broke out.

One juvenile witness told investigators he saw one person holding a handgun before another person handed someone an  AK-47 style  rifle.

The witness said the person with the rifle fired several shots into the air before pointing the weapon toward the ground and firing additional rounds near other people and dirt bikes.

The witness described the shooter as a thin Hispanic male dressed in black and wearing a face covering.

Within seconds to about a minute of the initial 911 call, Milwaukee police officers encountered people riding dirt bikes roughl
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