The family of an 18-year-old fatally shot by Pa. State Police called for a

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The family of an 18-year-old fatally shot by Pa. State Police called for a ‘full, transparent investigation’ into the incident.

An attorney for the family of Anthony Allegrini Jr., an 18-year-old who was fatally shot this weekend by a Pennsylvania state trooper on I-95, called Monday for a “full, transparent investigation” into the episode, which authorities said occurred after a series of chaotic street races across the city over the course of several hours.

Speaking at a news conference Monday evening, Enrique Latoison told reporters: “They want to make sure there’s accountability on all sides here,” later adding: “This is not going to be something that’s just going to go away, [where] the truth is not going to come out, [or] the full investigation is not going to be done — we’re not going to be OK with that.”

The remarks underscored questions Allegrini’s friends and relatives have raised about the shooting, particularly after videos posted on social media appeared to show Allegrini physically struggling after being shot while lying alone on the highway — even as a nearby trooper appeared to turn his gun toward a motorist filming the scene instead of rendering aid.

The comments came after law enforcement officials addressed the shooting at a news conference Monday afternoon. They offered few new details about the gunfire, but criticized what they said was dangerous behavior by scores of people who met up at different places across Philadelphia over the weekend — including on I-95 — to drag race or cause other chaos on the city’s streets.

State Police Capt. Gerard B. McShea largely reiterated the account the agency had offered over the weekend about the shooting, saying two troopers who responded to reports of illegal street racing and car drifting near Penn’s Landing around 3:30 a.m. came upon an Audi S4 with an obscured license plate stopped on the shoulder of the highway.

Troopers then saw four people, including Allegrini, get into the car and tried to box it in, McShea said, first using their police cruiser, and then by confronting it on foot. The people in the car “failed to yield” to the officers’ commands, McShea said, then “struck the two troopers” while trying to drive away. At that point, McShea said, one of the troopers fired a shot into the car, fatally striking Allegrini, the driver. The troopers suffered minor injuries to their legs, he said.

Still, McShea declined to answer a host of other questions. He did not identify the troopers, would not say where they were in relation to the car when one of them pulled the trigger, where the bullet struck Allegrini, or how he may have managed to get out of his car after being shot. He said the other people in the car were questioned but had not been charged.

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