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