Quintonio LeGrier, 19, was killed early Saturday by police responding to a domestic disturbance at an apartment on the city’s West Side, along with downstairs neighbor Bettie Jones, 55.
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Police said late Saturday that Jones was accidentally struck.
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The killings occur amid national concerns over a series of African-American shooting deaths by police that have given rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. Both victims were black.
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Cooksey, who was not present at the time of the shooting, told the Chicago Tribune that her son had been dealing with mental issues, but said police didn’t have to react the way they did.
She leaves behind children ranging from ages 19-38.
LeGrier’s family members told The Chicago Tribune that the college student was shot seven times. Jacqueline Walker, a friend of Jones, asked. Family and friends of both victims gathered for the Sunday press conference, demanding more accountability from the police department and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
They are – they say that the Independent Police Review Authority will be looking into this. “How in the middle of all this scrutiny, (can you) have a trigger-happy policeman?” Upon arrival, officers were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer’s weapon which fatally wounded two individuals. She said she wants a personal apology from Emanuel.
Melvin Jones says he’s “numb right now”. They did not say whether there was a video of the incident and provided no information on officers involved.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the officers’ role in the shootings is being investigated by the city’s Independent Police Review Authority, the main police oversight agency.
IPRA spokesman Larry Merritt also declined comment.
LeGrier’s father, Antonio LeGrier, had reported that his son seemed “agitated” before the events that led to his son being fatally shot.
“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.
“What family doesn’t fight on the holidays?” he said.
He said Bettie Jones lived in her first-floor apartment with her boyfriend and was the mother of four daughters and a son. He said Quintonio tried to bust the door open, but he kept him from doing so and called police.
“For her to fall victim to the very thing she fought against – it’s disgusting”, Jones’s cousin, Nikia Glover, 39, told The Washington Post in a telephone interview.
“Police are supposed to serve us and protect us, and instead they kill us”, LeGrier’s mother, Janet Cooksey, told reporters. He said he heard gunshots as he made his way down from the second floor and saw his son and Jones lying in the foyer. The young man reportedly spent most of his childhood in foster care, and struggled with mental health issues. “He’s here for Christmas break, and now I’ve lost him”, she said.
Cooksey denied that her son ever exhibited “combative behavior”.
Police said the officers involved would be placed on administrative duties for 30 days.
“If you’re afraid of these streets to the point where you got to shoot first, you need to turn your badge in”, said Betty Turner, LeGrier’s great aunt.
It isn’t known when the medical examiner’s office will do autopsies, which would determine how many times LeGrier and Jones were shot.
“Anytime an officer uses force the public deserves answers, and regardless of the circumstances we all grieve anytime there is a loss of life in our city”, reads Emanuel’s statement.
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The shooting of 17-year old Laquan McDonald, which took place in 2014, has triggered a federal civil rights probe into the police and calls in some corners for the resignation of the city’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel-a former top White House aide to President Barack Obama. He also reportedly called Jones to ask if she could press her buzzer and allow police in, because both residences in the two-unit building share the same entrance. The family met with a lawyer on Sunday, according to ABC7.
