CHICAGO – A Chicago police officer shot and killed two people early Saturday while responding to a domestic disturbance call on the city’s West Side, police said.
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Officers fired their weapons, fatally shooting 19-year old Quintonio LeGrier and 57-year old Bettie Jones. Both of those killed were black.
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The practices of the Chicago Police Department are the subject of a Justice Department review after the release last month of a video showing a white police officer fatally shooting Laquan McDonald, a black 17-year-old, in 2014.
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A Chicago police sergeant speaks with a relative of a man who was killed by a police officer in the West Garfield Park neighborhood in Chicago, early Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
The shooting is being investigated by Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority.
LeGrier’s father told the Chicago Sun-Times he had invited his son to a family holiday gathering before the shooting but the younger man chose not to go. Jones was pronounced dead at Loretto Hospital at 4:51 a.m. LeGrier was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 5:14 a.m.
When police arrived, Antonio LeGrier said he heard downstairs neighbour Ms Jones yell: “Whoa, Whoa Whoa!” Then he called his neighbor, Bettie Jones, who told him that Quintonio was outside with a baseball bat.
In the confrontation with LeGrier, Jones “was accidentally struck and tragically killed”.
“I identified myself as the father and I held my hands out”, he said.
Latisha Jones said she put her hand up to her mother’s face and she was still breathing. She said he could get loud, but not violent.
Antonio LeGrier said his son had emotional problems after spending most of his childhood in foster care, but that it didn’t warrant him being shot and killed.
Robin Andrews, Bettie Jones’ youngest brother, said Jones had been battling ovarian cancer for several years and had recently taken time off at work to recuperate.
It’s unclear why the police shot Jones, a mother of five.
Quintonio graduated past year from Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy in Chicago.
Mr Legrier’s mother, Janet Cooksey, told the Chicago Tribune her son “didn’t have a gun”.
He was upstairs, going insane on his bed I guess and he called my mom telling her to don’t let him out and wait for the police to come. The graphic nature of the video, in which Van Dyke is shown shooting McDonald not long after arriving on the scene, didn’t help, nor did the fact that this footage didn’t square with other officers’ accounts on the scene.
Autopsies have not yet been scheduled, a medical examiner’s office spokesperson said.
Saturday’s double shooting happened in the early hours.
“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”, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a statement.
Emanuel’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from the AP.
Melvin Jones, Jones’ older brother, said his sister was a hard-working single mother who had recently started a new job. He said she “had an excellent Christmas”.
The Police Department would not say where the victims were standing when they were shot, but blood could be seen in the small vestibule and just inside Jones’ apartment. Her children range in age from 19 to 38.
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Bettie Jones’ relatives said they, too, have “so many questions and no answers”.
