A Chicago police officer shot and killed two people early Saturday while responding to a domestic dispute call, authorities said.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office identified the two killed as Bettie R. Jones, 55, and Quintonio Legrier, 19. Both died at nearby hospitals shortly after the incident, police said. The incident comes as the troubled city is already embroiled in a federal civil rights investigation after a 2014 officer-involved shooting.
Police said an officer was responding to a “domestic dispute” around 4:30 a.m. Saturday when a person became combative “resulting in the discharging of the officer’s handgun, fatally wounding two individuals.” Both of those killed were black. Police did not disclose the officer’s name or race.
The shooting is under investigation, police said.
The city has been immersed in racial tensions since the court-ordered release in November of a police dashboard video showing white police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald — who was black — 16 times in October 2014.
Last week, the Justice Department launched a civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department in connection with that shooting and how the investigation of it was handled. Van Dyke has been charged with murder.
Legrier’s mother told WLS-TV that her son was “having a mental situation.” She said he could get loud, but not violent. The Associated Press reported Legrier was studying engineering at Northern Illinois University.
Melvin Jones, brother of Bettie, told the Chicago Tribune she was the mother of four daughters and a son ranging in age from 19 to 38, including twins, according to Associated Press. Melvin Jones said that a dozen family members celebrated Christmas in his sister’s home Friday and that she was Legrier’s neighbor.
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Relax, rahm has got it under control. Oy vey…
Another 9-1-1 call, and another corpse (two of them this time).
Good. Two idiots are out of the way. People on our side know better than to call the police.
with all these stories circulating, people still call the cops.
just means their chemical lobotomies are working.
i’m sure they trusted them too.
I am still surprised at how few people have a clue.
We will require a complete reset. Where the hell is that button again??