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Lawsuit Filed In Chicago Police Shooting Involving NIU Student

Mayor.cityofchicago.org

A father of one of two people fatally shot by Chicago police has sued the city.

A lawyer filed the wrongful death lawsuit Monday in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of Antonio LeGrier.
 
Police on Saturday shot his son, 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier, and a neighbor who lived in the same building, 55-year-old Bettie Jones.
 
Police have said they were responding to a domestic dispute and that Jones was accidentally hit by gunfire.
 
The lawsuit says Quintonio LeGrier never had a weapon and did nothing to suggest he was a threat before police opened fire.
 
The civil suit also alleges police forced the father to go immediately to a police station to answer questions as his son was dying.
 
Among other things, the suit claims there's video of at least some of the incident as it unfolded.

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