No officers were injured, Roy said.



A weapon was found on scene and was taken into evidence, he said. An alley between Roosevelt Road and Grenshaw was blocked with red evidence tape, and an evidence marker on Roosevelt showed where a gun magazine lay on the ground.



On Tuesday, family and friends of the boy gathered at the two-flat apartment building in East Garfield Park where his mother lives.



Loury's mother, Tambrasha Hudson, cried loudly on the front porch, tears streaming down her face, as relatives consoled her. The name "Pierre" was tattooed in cursive on her neck.



"Everything they said on the news is not the truth," said Hudson, her voice choked up. "It is not the truth. It's not the truth.



"It's sad!" she said repeatedly. "My baby was 16, not 30. My baby was 16! Sixteen!"



Pierre's grandmother Catherine Hudson told the Tribune she was sleeping when Hudson called to tell her the teen had been shot by police. The grandmother said she was thinking the worst "but praying for the better."



His family said Loury was the oldest of five children, an aspiring rapper who attended Community Christian Alternative Academy in the West Side's Lawndale neighborhood.



"He's a typical Chicago teen male, no different than any other young man living in this city, facing some of the same challenges and trials and tribulations," Winters said in the vestibule of the two-flat, the front door squeaking as relatives walked in and out of the building.



Winters said she couldn't see her great-nephew being the type to carry a gun. She described Loury's past brushes with the law as "small minor incidents," nothing that would rise to the level of a police officer having to shoot him.