Two Shot by Chicago Police
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I stand here because I love my nephew, but I also stand for the other young teenagers that have gotten shot down in the streets like dogs.</s>FEYERICK: And that is the aunt of a 19-year-old man shot and killed by Chicago police. It's putting the department under scrutiny once again. Police say an officer fatally wounded a 19-year-old Antonio LeGrier and 55-year-old Betty Jones, a mother of five, while they were responding to a domestic disturbance call involving the 19-year-old. Chicago P.D. now says Jones, her death was a tragic accident. Her childhood friend spoke out this afternoon in anger.</s>JACQUELINE WALKER, FRIEND OF 55-YEAR-OLD SHOOTING VICTIM: It hurts me all over that the family is going through this tragic day that's going on, police shooting without asking. Why you got to shoot first and ask questions later? It's ridiculous. You know, somebody needs to do something about this, this is ridiculous. What about the tasers? Taser them down, don't shoot innocent people.</s>FEYERICK: And our Ryan Young joins now from Chicago, outside the house where the two victims lived and were killed. Ryan, tell me about the crowd and tell me about the mood.</s>RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Deborah, you know, we've been doing this for about an hour and a half now and you really feel the pain of people who are in this area. They are upset about this and they want to know what happened. They want to know why the officers had to open fire. If you look behind me, you can see the crowd now has kind of go it down in size because some started marching off, some people were doing a chant a little earlier. But if I'm going to walk you this way, you can see some of the family members actually who are on this porch who are standing here. They just addressed the crowd a few minutes ago. They were saying they were very upset. They wanted to know from police why this happened, why did they have to shoot first, like you heard in the sound bite. People want to know why a taser couldn't be used in the situation. If you look in the same area right there, the green dot that's right there above the ledge, that's one of the evidence markers we can see where the bullet went through the door. This family actually stood in front of the door and said this is where the bullets came through the door and killed a mother of five and grandmother. Of course, police were responding to a 19-year-old who had a bat in his hand and his father had called 911 asking for help, when police arrived, apparently fired several shots into this area. The family saying that the 19-year-old was hit seven times, they wanted to now he was shot so many times if I had a bat in his hand? Did anyone try to talk him down, did anyone tried to stop him the time before the shooting started? Obviously, this community is already upset and they already don't trust police. And you have a lot of questions being asked. And, of course, we talked to some people (inaudible) remembers earlier, who just beyond belief in terms of upset about what's going on in the city.</s>JANET COOKSEY, MOTHER OF 19-YEAR-OLD VICTIM: Antonio was a good child, the child that wanted things. He always say, "Momma had millions because you know what? I'm going to work hard and study hard." And he was a honor student. Seven times my son was shot, one in the buttock, that showed he was turning away. He was turning away but I got to turn today for him and I have to be there. This needs to stop. No mother should have to bury her child.</s>YOUNG: So just really raw emotion out here at this point. Sometimes you're walking around us and we're really seeing people pouring their hearts out. They're crying, they're showing pictures of their family members. In fact, there's a picture that's being shown. We're going to walk up a little bit just to see we can get an edge of that picture right here. This is what's going on right now in terms of people showing these pictures of their family members, of their loved ones, wanting a change. And you can see this picture that's being held out right here, right now. For the last two hours or so people have been standing out here just asking and begging for there be changes in the Chicago Police Department, changes in the city. A there's something that lot of people can understand obviously with shootings that happened in this city, the questions about the police department. But obviously, when you see family members coming together like this and community support, you can understand that there's a lot of raw emotion in this community right now.</s>FEYERICK: Yeah. There's no question about it, Ryan. And, obviously, police officers when they are responding to a call from a family about an emotional disturbed person with a bat, you have to wonder what kind of training the officers have in terms of how they use force and under what circumstances, clearly all of that will be under investigation and review by an internal police investigators. Ryan Young, thank you so much. We'll be right back.</s>YOUNG: Thanks.