CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call Saturday accidentally shot and killed a 55-year-old woman, who was among two people fatally wounded, police said late Saturday.
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.
Officers who responded to the call “were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer’s weapon,” the Chicago Police Department said in a brief statement.
“The 55-year-old female victim was accidentally struck and tragically killed,” reads the statement, which extends “deepest condolences to the victim’s family and friends.”
The shooting happened around 4:25 a.m., police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office and family members said LeGrier, a 19-year-old college student, was pronounced dead at a
hospital at 4:51 a.m. and Jones, a 55-year-old mother of five, died at a different hospital a short time later.
