CHICAGO (AP) — A grand jury added 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm to the first-degree murder charges against a white Chicago police officer accused in the fatal shooting of a black 17-year-old. A special prosecutor and attorneys for former Officer Jason Van Dyke didn’t discuss the new indictment announced during at a Thursday nearing. Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in October 2014. The new indictment brings to 23 the number of felony counts against Van Dyke.

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