Quintonio LeGrier Called 911 3 Times Before Fatal Shooting: IPRA

Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority says a 19-year-old college student called 911 three times asking them to send police before he was fatally shot by an officer.

“I need an officer at 4710 West Erie Street”, he says in the audio tapes.

LeGrier called 911 three times to ask for a police officer to be sent to his house on Chicago’s West Side, but declined to answer questions by the dispatcher.

Meantime, the attorney for Officer Robert Rialmo, Joel Brodsky, says he’ll be filing a counter claim against the estate of Quintonio LeGrier, because LeGrier, attacked the officer.

The report says the 911 operator who took LeGrier’s third call a few minutes later “dispatched a squad auto on a well-being check”.

IPRA said in a news release Monday that the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communication only just recently identified the new 911 recordings and shared them with IPRA.

“Are you going to answer my question?” the dispatcher replies.

The elder LeGrier told the Chicago Sun-Times in December he heard loud banging on his locked bedroom door around 4.15am and that his son said, ‘You’re not going to scare me’.

“Yeah, when you answer the question”, the operator responds.

Prior to the release of new 911 recordings on Monday, the public only knew about two of the emergency phone calls-one from Quintonio LeGrier and one from his father, Antonio LeGrier.

“He’s got a baseball bat in his hand right now”, he said.

Autopsy result showed LeGrier was shot six times and his 55-year-old neighbor Bettie Jones was struck once in the chest, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. The two 911 calls had not previously been made public.

The father told the newspaper that he called Jones, who lived a floor below, and warned her that his son was a “little irate” and not to open the door unless police arrived.

Wrongful-death lawsuits have already been filed against the city, and the dispatcher is still employed but facing disciplinary action.

“They obfuscate the fact that they hung up on Quintonio the first time” he called for help.

“You call for help and you lose someone…” “Per the CBA, the call-taker will remain in service until the discipline process is complete”. “That has to stop”, Legrier’s mother Janet Cooksey said.

LeGrier’s shooting followed a round of protests against Chicago police brutality, with more and more demonstrators calling for Emanuel’s resignation and an investigation into the mayor’s administration.