Autopsy results from Dec. 27 revealed that Jones died from a bullet wound to the chest, while LeGrier died from several gunshot wounds. Both of the deaths were ruled homicides by the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Larry Rogers, Sr., an attorney representing Jones’s family, was as a baffled by Jones’s death as many of her loved ones and neighbors.
“It’s such an unusual occurrence that an innocent person, who merely answered the doorbell, gets shot and killed the way she was,” he said, adding that he believes Jones may have been shot three times.
Rogers also said that a bullet went “through the house” and into the bathroom of Jones’s first floor apartment, where one of her daughters was at the time. The bullet, he said, could’ve struck her.
“I know there were multiple officers present and we don’t know how many fired,” he said during a Dec. 27 vigil held outside of the apartment building. “We know at least one [officer], and possibly others, [fired bullets] because there were multiple shots fired.”
When asked what kind of confrontation might have provoked the officers’ response, Rogers said he didn’t know.
“I don’t know that there was any confrontation between Quintonio and the police,” he said. “I don’t know that there was any confrontation … before they fired upon him.”
LeGrier’s father told the Sun-Times that he knew the officer who shot his son understood he had made a mistake.
“F—, no, no, no,” LeGrier recalled the officer yelling. “I thought he was lunging at me with the [baseball] bat.'”
During Sunday’s vigil, Ald. Jason Ervin (28th), said the shooting was a “travesty” and “unimaginable.” He said he’d met Jones once while helping her with a building problem she was facing.
“She was a community member and a decent person,” he said, adding that the police department’s attitude has to be held accountable.
“Both the police and the city has to work to change that attitude. Bats don’t equate to bullets,” he said.
Many of the more that 100 people at the vigil also called for widespread reform of CPD’s “shoot first, ask questions later,” attitude. They also noted that the shootings only reinforced the general sense shared among residents of the West and South Sides that the police aren’t to be trusted.