Autopsy: Quintonio LeGrier Struck Six Times By Police Bullets; Bettie Jones Once
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Police responding to a domestic dispute shot a college student six times, while a neighbor was struck with one fatal gunshot to the chest, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner.
The autopsy reports for Quintonio LeGrier, 19, and Bettie Jones, 55, were released on Thursday.
LeGrier was shot in the chest, back, right buttock and left arm. He suffered a graze wounds to his right shoulder and chest.
The teen also had marijuana in his system, the report found.
The bullet that struck Jones, severed her heart, aorta and esophagus.
Initially, the medical examiner's office was not told the shootings involved a Chicago Police Officer, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
A spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department says there must have been "a miscommunication on some level," but noted it was widely reported early on that the fatal shooting was a police-involved incident.
On Dec. 26, police were called to an apartment building in the 4700 block of West Erie Street for a domestic incident involving LeGrier and his father. Police said "were confronted by a combative subject" holding a baseball bat and that an officer fired his weapon.
Jones, a neighbor, was not involved in the dispute.
LeGrier was home on break from Northern Illinois University and visiting his father Antonio LeGrier, who lives above Jones' apartment.
Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez has asked the FBI to investigate the shooting for possible civil-rights violations.
