Bettie Jones, 55, was one of two people fatally wounded early on Saturday after officers responded to a domestic violence call on the city’s West Side. They said Jones was killed by accident and extended condolences. Both victims were black.
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Local media identified the two African-American fatalities as Bettie Jones, a mother of five, and 19-year-old engineering student Quintonio LeGrier.
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Bettie Jones, an Action Now member, posed no threat to police officers.
In a tone decidedly more defiant than other participants, Carter said, “You are calling for an act of war and that’s what you’ll get”.
Officers who responded to a 911 call “were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer’s weapon”, the Chicago Police Department said in a statement Saturday.
“The 55-year-old female victim was accidentally struck and tragically killed”. LeGrier’s father, Antonio Le Grier, called the police after his son – who was “dealing with mental issues”, according to the Daily News – menaced him with a bat.
Cooksey stated she is angry and wants a personal apology from Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
“She was a attractive woman”, said Jacqueline Walker, a friend of Jones’.
The killings are the first in the city since protests last month over a video showing a white police officer in Chicago shooting 16 times at a fleeing black teen, who died at the scene.
The circumstances of the shootings aren’t clear, including whether one or several officers opened fire and why. “The matter remains under investigation and all further inquiries can be directed to the Independent Police Review Authority…”
“In my opinion, he knew he had messed up”, Antonio LeGrier said, according to the Chicago Sun Times.
IPRA spokesman Larry Merritt said that he was unsure how long the investigation would take.
The shooting comes amid a federal civil rights investigation into the Chicago Police Department that’s looking into how the department disciplines officers as well as patterns of racial disparity in the use of force.
The release of the McDonald shooting video led to protests, the forced resignation of former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and calls from residents for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step down.
“This family is absolutely devastated”, the Rev. Marshall E. Hatch of a West Garfield Park church said, adding that the shooting showed how “deeply dysfunctional the relationship is between this department and its citizens”. We will continue to ask tough questions of the police department, of the investigative agencies, and of ourselves, to drive the reforms the people of Chicago deserve and expect.
LeGrier’s father told the Chicago Sun-Times he had invited his son to a family holiday gathering before the shooting but he chose not to go. This past Thanksgiving, the elder LeGrier said he had his son admitted to a hospital where medication was prescribed to deal with issues. He said his son tried to bust the door open, but he kept him from doing so and called police. Antonio L. said he had prevented this. When he got a floor lower he saw his son and the neighbor on the ground.
“My son weighed 150 pounds, I holler at him all the time and he never raised his hand up at me so I know he (his father) could’ve handled it”, Cooksey said. The victim’s daughter, Latisha Jones, 19, told the newspaper she was awakened by gunfire and found her mother on the floor of her apartment with a gunshot wound to the neck. Both Jones and LeGrier were black, the medical examiner’s office said.
Legrier’s mother says the cops “overreacted”, and shot her son seven times.
He said his son had emotional problems after spending most of his childhood in foster care. “My child ran a marathon previous year for charity, honor roll student, he’s been having A’s and B’s since he was in grammar school”, said Cooksey, questioning why police wouldn’t use a taser to subdue her child if they felt threatened.
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Emanuel’s office said in a statement Saturday that IPRA would share its evidence with the county prosecutor’s office.
