Surveillance video released Tuesday shows an off-duty Chicago police officer shooting and wounding an unarmed autistic black teenager, contradicting a description of the incident initially provided by police.

The Chicago Tribune reports that the footage released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability shows Sgt. Khalil Muhammad shooting Ricardo Hayes, 18, during the August 2017 incident.

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In the video, Hayes can be seen running along the sidewalk before stopping. The off-duty officer later identified as Muhammad then pulls up and Hayes begins to approach his car. After a few steps Muhammad opens fire, shooting him in the arm and chest. Hayes runs away despite the injuries.

According to The Associated Press, lawsuits filed by the teenager's family on behalf of Hayes and by the American Civil Liberties Union claim that his caretaker had called the police before the incident to report that he had wandered away from home and had developmental disabilities.

Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that Muhammad had not yet received training on dealing with people with mental health issues when he shot Hayes and since he was off-duty he would not have been aware of the 911 call. The officer would also not have known that Hayes was autistic because he didn't interview him, the spokesman said.

"Certainly, discharging the weapon from the vehicle is going to have to be explained," the spokesman said, according to the AP.

Karen Sheley of the ACLU of Illinois says that the video contradicts police officials' description at the time of the shooting describing it as an armed confrontation.

“The video shows both that there was no justification for the officer to shoot him and that initial stories told by CPD officials about the shooting — that the ‘encounter escalated’ — were false," she said in a statement.

Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson later said that Hayes had no weapon.

The Chicago Police Department was in the midst of training program on how to deal with differently abled people, precipitated by an incident in 2015 where a police officer fatally shot a 55-year-old bystander and teenager who was suffering a mental health episode and had a baseball bat, the AP noted.

Muhammad has been on paid desk duty since the incident, according to the Tribune.

The Chicago Police Department did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment.

The release of the video comes less than two weeks after a jury handed down a guilty verdict for a Chicago police officer charged in the shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014.

Police had initially claimed that McDonald charged the officer with a knife, but dashcam video evidence showed that the officer shot and killed McDonald without armed provocation.