Family Views Video of Fatal Shooting of Usaamah Rahim

The family of Usaamah Rahim has viewed the surveillance video footage of the shooting that occurred earlier this week in Roslindale, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.

Rahim was shot by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force on Tuesday morning outside the CVS on Washington Street near the West Roxbury Parkway.

The viewing occurred earlier this evening with Daniel Conley, the DA, the family, and their counsel. Jake Wark, the press secretary for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, said Conley had agreed to not release the footage until after Rahim’s funeral.

“In deference to their wishes, that footage will not be released publicly until after Rahim’s funeral,” he said. “We will advise in advance when that will take place.”

Wark noted that Coney was pledging to have “a thorough, impartial, and unbiased investigation,” and would provide the family, its attorney, and members of the press, the prosecutors’ enter investigative file “as he does in all such cases under a policy of transparency almost unparalleled across the country.”

Family members and others were critical of the shooting and questioned the allegations by police. Usaamah Rahim’s brother, Imam Ibrahim Rahim, took to social media not long after the shooting and stated that his brother had been shot in the back while speaking with his father on a cellphone. Some likened the shooting to an execution.

Later, police revealed that Usaamah Rahim was the target of a terror probe. An alleged co-conspirator, David Wright of Everett, was also arrested on Wednesday. Investigators were also in Warwick, RI, as part of the investigation. It was later learned that the plot was allegedly a plan to behead Pamela Geller, a controversial political commentator based in New York, who had recently hosted a Mohammed drawing contest in Texas, according to reports.