Police fatally shoot 2 while answering domestic call on West Side
People gather to honor Quintonio LeGrier near Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy in Chicago on Dec. 29, 2015. LeGrier, a graduate of the South Side school, was fatally shot by Chicago police responding to a domestic disturbance call Dec. 26 at the West Garfield Park apartment building where LeGrier lived. Police also fatally shot neighbor Bettie Jones, accidentally, who was a mother of five.
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Chicago police fatally shot Quintonio LeGrier, 19, and Bettie Jones, 55, as officers responded to a domestic disturbance at a West Garfield Park residence Dec. 26, 2015, authorities said.
Mourners gather near Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy to memorialize Quintonio LeGrier on Dec. 29, 2015. LeGrier, a graduate of the South Side school, was fatally shot by Chicago police responding to a domestic disturbance call Dec. 26 at the West Garfield Park apartment building where LeGrier lived. Police also fatally shot neighbor Bettie Jones, accidentally.
(Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)LaTonya Jones, center, a daughter of Bettie Jones, is comforted by her father, Garry Mullen, as she holds a picture of her mother Dec. 27, 2015, outside the West Garfield Park apartment building where Bettie Jones was accidentally shot, fatally, by Chicago police the previous day.
(Michael Tercha / Chicago Tribune)Family members of Quintonio LeGrier, including Sequna Newsome, from left, LeGrier’s mother Janet Cooksey and Betty Turner, hold hands during a news conference Dec. 27, 2015. LeGrier was shot and killed by police, along with Bettie Jones, on Dec. 26.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)LaTarsha Jones, center, a daughter of Bettie Jones, is comforted by family and friends in front of Jones’ apartment building in the West Garfield Park neighborhood Dec. 27, 2015. Jones was shot and killed by police the previous day along with 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Family and friends put up a photo of Bettie Jones during a vigil Dec. 27, 2015, outside the West Garfield Park apartment building where Jones and Quintonio LeGrier were fatally shot by police the day before.
(Michael Tercha / Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Ira Acree prays during a vigil Dec. 27, 2015, outside the West Garfield Park apartment building where Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones were fatally shot by police the day before.
(Michael Tercha / Chicago Tribune)Janet Cooksey, left, mother of Quintonio LeGrier, lights candles and prays with family Dec. 27, 2015, during a vigil outside the West Garfield Park apartment building where LeGrier, 19, and his neighbor, Bettie Jones, 55, were fatally shot by police the day before.
(Michael Tercha / Chicago Tribune)LaTonya Jones, center, a daughter of Bettie Jones, is comforted during a Dec. 27, 2015, vigil outside the West Garfield Park apartment building where Jones lived. Jones and a 19-year-old neighbor were fatally shot the day before.
(Michael Tercha / Chicago Tribune)The Rev. Marshall E. Hatch, center right, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, center, speak Dec. 27, 2015, outside the West Garfield Park apartment building where Bettie Jones, 55, and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were shot and killed by police the day before.
(Michael Tercha / Chicago Tribune)Deborah Johnson, center, fiancee of Fred Hampton, vows Black Panther Party support for Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones during a vigil Dec. 27, 2015, outside the West Garfield Park apartment building where LeGrier and Jones were fatally shot by police the day before.
(Michael Tercha / Chicago Tribune)Janet Cooksey, mother of Quintonio LeGrier, center, is comforted by family and friends at a news conference Dec. 27, 2015, discussing the recent police shooting deaths of her son and Bettie Jones the day before.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)LaTarsha Jones, center, a daughter of Bettie Jones, is surrounded by friends and family at the family home in the West Garfield Park neighborhood Dec. 27, 2015. Bettie Jones was accidentally shot and killed by Chicago police the day before while officers were responding to a domestic disturbance call at the apartment building.
(Nancy Stone / Chicago Tribune)Janet Cooksey holds a photo of her son Quintonio LeGrier, 19, while talking with the media, after he was shot and killed by police on Dec. 26, 2015, on the West Side. Bettie Jones, 55, was also fatally shot by police on the same call.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)Melvin Jones, facing camera, hugs Robin Andrews, both brothers of Bettie Jones, 55, in Jones’ living room after she was fatally shot by Chicago police on Dec. 26, 2015, during a domestic disturbance call. Quintonio LeGrier, 19, also was shot and killed.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)Bloodstains remain outside the apartment of Bettie Jones, 55, after she and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were shot by Chicago police in the West Side early on Dec. 26, 2015.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)The daughters of Bettie Jones, 55, hug each other across the police tape surrounding their mother’s residence hours after police shot Jones and a 19-year-old man while responding to a domestic disturbance call on Dec. 26, 2015, in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)Relatives of a 55-year-old woman who was fatally shot by the police console each other on the 4700 block of West Erie Street, on Dec. 26, 2015, in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood.
(Brian Nguyen / Chicago Tribune)Robin Andrews, brother of Bettie Jones, cries in her kitchen after she was fatally shot by Chicago police on Dec. 26, 2015, in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)Evelyn Glover Jennings, cousin of Bettie Jones, talks with the media outside Jones’ residence after the woman was fatally shot by Chicago police on Dec. 26, 2015, in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)Robin Andrews, brother of Bettie Jones, cries in her kitchen after she was fatally shot by Chicago police on Dec. 26, 2015, in West Garfield Park.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)A sticker shows the width of a bullet hole in Bettie Jones’ West Garfield Park apartment on Dec. 26, 2015. The bullet traveled through more than one wall. Chicago police fatally shot Jones, 55, and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, while responding to a domestic disturbance call.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)A bullet shattered a glass block in the kitchen of Bettie Jones, 55. Jones and 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier were fatally shot by Chicago police on Dec. 26, 2015, at a West Garfield Park residence.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)The daughters of Bettie Jones, 55, hug each other on Dec. 26, 2015, across police tape cordoning off the West Garfield Park building where she lived. Jones and 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier were fatally shot early in the morning by Chicago police responding to a domestic disturbance call.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)Chicago police investigate after a 19-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman were fatally shot by officers responding to a domestic disturbance call in West Garfield Park on Dec. 26, 2015.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)Chicago police investigate at the scene where a 19-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman were fatally shot by officers responding to a domestic disturbance call in West Garfield Park on Dec. 26, 2015.
(Abel Uribe / Chicago Tribune)Chicago police investigate at the scene where a 19-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman were fatally shot by officers responding to a domestic disturbance call in West Garfield Park on Dec. 26, 2015.
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