“Seven years, and we still don’t have the answers. We still don’t know what happened to my son. Seven years, I’m still fighting, trying to find the truth.”
Wells said she remains determined to solve her son’s murder and will not stop demanding answers from the Chicago Police Department, which she said botched not only its response to Copeland’s plea for medical assistance but also the investigation into his murder.
On the podcast, Wells remembered her son as energetic and outgoing. He was shot and killed shortly after leasing a new BMW — a tangible sign of the success he was experiencing while working for a firm that offered discounted vacations. “That cost my son his life,” Wells said. “I am certain that if my son had immediately gotten the help that he needed, my son would be alive to tell his story today.”
City officials rejected a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Invisible Institute and Wells for the inspector general’s report. A spokesperson for the city’s Law Department said that request was denied because the report remains with the Office of the Inspector General, now led by Deborah Witzburg.
“As a society, as a city, we have a moral obligation that is really imperative when tragedies like this occur to learn everything we can possibly learn toward the future, toward reducing similar harms in the future,” Kalven said. The sergeant was reprimanded by police officials, but the department declined to impose harsher penalties on him because the inspector general failed to find “by a preponderance of the evidence that the victim was, in fact, handcuffed prior to being transported to the hospital,” according to the summary of the inspector general’s report.“As if this was a figment of my imagination, that’s what the anger comes because it basically tells me that my son’s life didn’t mean anything,” Wells said.
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