Monday, December 28, 2015

Chicago Police Shooting: LeGrier, Jones Families Demand Answers


Friends and family of the two people shot and killed by a Chicago police officer — one accidentally — joined local officials in calling for answers and reform on Sunday.

The Chicago Police Department said that an officer responding to a "domestic disturbance" at a home on the city's West Side on Saturday fatally shot a "combative subject," Quintonio LeGrier, 19. Bettie Jones, a 55-year-old mother of five, was "accidentally struck and tragically killed" during the encounter, police said. 

The Cook County medical examiner's office ruled the deaths of LeGrier and Jones as homicides. Both Jones and LeGrier — a college student — were Black. 

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Source: NBC News 

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