LeGrier’s mother, Janet Cooksey, told the Chicago Tribune that police didn’t have to react the way they did. In this NBC Chicago segment, a tearful young woman identified as Jones’ daughter says her mother was shot dead when she opened her door. The department has placed the officer on administrative duty for 30 days and “extends their deepest condolences to the victim’s family and friends”, Chicago police said.
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Betty Jones, 55, who lived in the same building as LeGrier’s father but a floor above, was also fatally shot.
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Jones was described as a downstairs neighbor of Legrier’s in their apartment building on the city’s West Side. When she put her hand up to Bettie’s face, she could still feel her breathing. “If you are a police officer, you are supposed to be trained for situations”, she said.
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Quintonio’s father told Latisha to look out for the police and to stay away from his son.
Antonio LeGrier said police later told him that Quintonio LeGrier was shot seven times, and that he had called 911 before his father did. It’s also coming in as a domestic. They include 19-year-old twins.
The police said that around 4:25 a.m. today, officers responded to a “domestic disturbance” on West Erie Street and were “confronted by a combative subject”.
There was nothing else specified. Legrier was a 19-year-old student. She ended up being shot moments later, and LeGrier’s son was shot dead as well.
Neighbors and relatives told the Chicago Sun-Times that Jones opened the door for police and was shot in the neck soon afterward.
Early this morning, the teen began banging on their bedroom door with a bat, which is when the father called police.
That case contributed to Garry McCarthy losing his job as Chicago’s police superintendent and spurred calls for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign.
“Are we gonna get protected or is the police just gonna keep taking lives?” “He was an honor student in college”, LeGrier’s mother told WBBM. “He’s here for Christmas break, and now I’ve lost him”. But that’s my only child. “And I’m hurting. I’m hurting real bad”, she said. “I went to the hospital and my son had seven bullet holes in him”, Cookery said.
In a statement on Facebook, Charlene Carruthers, National Director of the Black Youth Project, said that she is “livid, sad and devastated” by the news. This past Thanksgiving, Antonio LeGrier said he had his son admitted to Weiss Memorial Hospital, where he was prescribed some medication to deal with his issues.
‘Why do you have to be shot that many times? Why?
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Homicides overall, not just officer-involved shootings, have been a major issue in Chicago, dealing with more homicides the past few years than even NY and Los Angeles, two more populous cities. She then watched as her mother lay bleeding on the ground.
