Obama doesn’t know what he is missing while vacationing in Hawaii.
Via Chicago Tribune:
Chicago police shot and killed a man and a woman as officers responded to a domestic disturbance at a West Garfield Park home early Saturday, according to police and relatives of the victims.
The statement contained no other details, but a source said the man — identified by relatives as 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier — was carrying a bat and was threatening his father when police were called. No gun was recovered at the scene.
Relatives said LeGrier was studying engineering at Northern Illinois University but recently was struggling with mental issues. “I was praying with him because he wasn’t acting like himself,” said LeGrier’s great-aunt, Betty Turner, 56.
The other person killed was identified by family as Bettie Jones, a 55-year-old mother of five who lived on the first floor of the two-flat where the shooting occurred. LeGrier’s father lives on the second floor.
Latisha Jones said she woke to gunfire and found her mother with a gunshot wound to the neck. “She wasn’t saying anything,” Jones said. “I had to keep checking for a pulse.”
Relatives said police were called to the home by LeGrier’s father because his son was agitated and carrying a metal bat, family members said.
“His father was scared because that’s not his character,” said LeGrier’s mother, Janet Cooksey, 49, who was not present at the time of the shooting.
LeGrier’s father told Jones downstairs not to approach his son and to keep an eye out for police.
Responding officers were told by a dispatcher that a “male caller said someone is threatening his life. It’s also coming in as a domestic. The 19-year-old son is banging on his bedroom door with a baseball bat.”
Officers from District 11 arrived at the home around 4:25 a.m.
The officers “were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer’s weapon, fatally wounding two individuals,” the police statement said.
The statement had no specifics, but the shooting appeared to have happened as LeGrier came out the front door, according to a relative of the teen. Evidence markers were placed on the sidewalk leading to the porch.