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Posted: 2018-10-17T20:29:55Z | Updated: 2018-10-17T20:29:55Z

A civilian oversight agency has released a series of videos from 2017 that show an off-duty Chicago police officer shooting and wounding an unarmed black teen with an intellectual disability.

In the videos, which were recorded in the early hours of Aug. 13, 2017, Ricardo Ricky Hayes, who is black, is seen running through a Far South Side neighborhood as an SUV follows. Hayes, who was 18 at the time, eventually stops in front of a home on South Hermosa Avenue.

The SUV can be seen stopping in the middle of the street, but the driver remains seated inside. Seconds later, as Hayes slowly steps toward the street, two gunshots ring out. Hayes is then seen running out of view. The vehicles lone occupant briefly exits the vehicle before driving off.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability on Tuesday released the videos seven in all along with audio files and police reports, which identify the driver of the SUV as Chicago police Sgt. Khalil Muhammad.

Muhammad eventually located Hayes, who was shot in the chest and arm, near Morgan Park High School. A recording of a 911 call Muhammad made is among the files released this week.

The guy pulled like he was about to pull a gun on me, walked up to the car, and I had to shoot, Muhammad told the dispatcher.

Hayes, who survived the shooting, can be heard screaming in the background of the call.