Chicago police officer accidentally shoots woman dead, as teen is also killed

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A Chicago police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call accidentally shot and killed a 55-year-old woman&comma; who was among two people fatally wounded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Relatives said Bettie Jones lived downstairs from Quintonio LeGrier&comma; the 19-year-old subject of the initial call to police&comma; who also was killed by the officer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Officers who responded to the call &&num;8220&semi;were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer&&num;8217&semi;s weapon&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the Chicago Police Department said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The 55-year-old female victim was accidentally struck and tragically killed&comma;&&num;8221&semi; it said&comma; extending &&num;8220&semi;deepest condolences to the victim&&num;8217&semi;s family and friends&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The shooting happened around 4&colon;25am local time on Saturday&comma; police said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Cook County medical examiner&&num;8217&semi;s office and family members said Mr LeGrier&comma; a college student&comma; was pronounced dead at a hospital at 4&colon;51am&period; and Ms Jones&comma; a mother of five&comma; died at a different hospital a short time later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Both were black&comma; the medical examiner&&num;8217&semi;s office said&period; Police did not immediately disclose the race of the officer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The shooting comes amid a civil rights investigation of the police department launched after last month&&num;8217&semi;s release of video showing white officer Jason Van Dyke shooting black 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Officials have said the investigation will look into patterns of racial disparity in the use of force&comma; as well as review how the department disciplines officers and handles misconduct accusations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is not clear whether there are any video recordings of Saturday&&num;8217&semi;s shootings&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr LeGrier&&num;8217&semi;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&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Antonio LeGrier said when he returned to his second-floor flat early on Saturday&comma; his son appeared to be a &&num;8220&semi;little agitated&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said he heard loud banging on his locked bedroom door around 4&colon;15am and that his son said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;You&&num;8217&semi;re not going to scare me&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The father said he called Ms Jones&comma; who lived a floor below&comma; and warned her that his son was a &&num;8220&semi;little irate&&num;8221&semi; and not to open the door unless police arrived&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said she told him she saw his son outside with a baseball bat&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When police arrived&comma; Antonio LeGrier said he heard Ms Jones yell&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Whoa&comma; Whoa Whoa&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said he heard gunshots as he made his way down from the second floor and then saw his son and Ms Jones lying in the foyer&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr LeGrier said police later told him that his son was shot seven times&comma; and then he had called 911 before his father did&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said his son had emotional problems after spending most of his childhood in foster care&period; &&num;8220&semi;Did it warrant him getting shot and killed&quest; I don&&num;8217&semi;t believe it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the elder LeGrier said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The teenager&&num;8217&semi;s mother&comma; Janet Cooksey&comma; told the Chicago Tribune police did not have to react the way they did&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re thinking the police are going to service us&comma; take him to the hospital&period; They took his life&comma;&&num;8221&semi; said Ms Cooksey&comma; who was not present at the time of the shooting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bettie Jones&&num;8217&semi; brother&comma; Melvin Jones&comma; told the Tribune his sister celebrated &&num;8220&semi;an excellent&&num;8221&semi; Christmas at her flat on Friday with about 15 other relatives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said she lived there with her boyfriend and was the mother of four daughters and a son ranging in age from 19 to 38&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;There are so many questions and no answers&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Melvin Jones said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m numb right now&period; Right now there&&num;8217&semi;s a whole lot of anger&comma; a whole lot of tears &&num;8230&semi; I don&&num;8217&semi;t have time to feel&period; I have a funeral to prepare&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e35483ef">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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