The police in the southwest suburb informed on Tuesday that the teen who was shot and killed by Chicago police, last week, had been driving a car that had been stolen hours earlier from a Bolingbrook home.

Bolingbrook Public Safety Director Tom Ross said that the 2002 Jaguar XKR convertible, was among the four cars that had been stolen in Bolingbrook between Wednesday and Thursday morning.

A surveillance camera at a gas station in the suburb captured 18 years old Paul O'Neal and three others suspects who participated in the thefts of older-model cars early on Thursday. Three of the four stolen cars though not the Jaguar, were also caught on the camera at the station on Route 53 and Boughton Road.

Unarmed O'Neal was fatally shot on Thursday evening as he ran from a Chicago police officer after crashing the Jaguar into two police vehicles in the South Shore neighborhood.

Ross said, "It is extremely rare to have four cars stolen in one night. They were looking for cars with keys in the ignition. They took anything they could."

He said that the Jaguar was reported stolen from the 400 block of Delaware Circle in Bolingbrook. The owner reported after seeing it last at 10:30 PM on Wednesday and discovered it missing at 5:55 AM on Thursday.

The video camera captured O'Neal and the three other suspects at the gas station at 3:30 AM on Thursday.

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By Prakriti Neogi