Police Brutality / Individual record
Quintonio LeGrier
The Washington Post's Fatal Force database records Quintonio LeGrier in a fatal on-duty police shooting on 2015-12-26 in Chicago, IL. Individual circumstances and legal outcome require case-specific review.
- Record ID
- PB-335
- Incident date
- December 26, 2015
- Outcome
- Fatal
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Agency
- Chicago Police Department
- Category
- Fatal on-duty police shooting
- Age (reported)
- 19
What happened
Quintonio LeGrier, 19, a Northern Illinois University student who was experiencing a behavioral crisis, was shot and killed by Chicago Officer Robert Rialmo on December 26, 2015. LeGrier had been involved in a dispute with his father, who called for police assistance, and the officer said LeGrier advanced toward him carrying a baseball bat. Rialmo fired toward LeGrier in the entryway, also killing uninvolved neighbor Bettie Jones. LeGrier's family argued Rialmo used excessive force, and the police accountability agency reviewed the incident. A civil jury ultimately found in the officer's favor on liability, while a separate finding concerned the family's claims and damages. The disputed distances, alleged bat threat, and Jones's bystander death require careful separation from each family's litigation.
Investigation & findings
Individual legal and investigative outcome not yet reviewed.
Washington Post Fatal Force v2; 2015–2024
Source record details
- Source incident ID
- 1124
- Race code in source
- B
- Race source method
- not_available
- Gender (source)
- male
- Armed status (source)
- blunt_object
- Flee status (source)
- not
- Agency IDs (source)
- 265
Sources & records
- Primary source
- Additional source
- Methodology and national police killings trackingMapping Police Violence · Dataset/methodology
- Fatal Force v2 — fatal on-duty police shootings, 2015–2024The Washington Post · Dataset