Nov 9, 2009 8:10 pm US/Central
Widow Wants Justice In Shooting Death Of Husband
She Wants Officer Christopher Lloyd -- A Cop Already Accused Of Rape In Another Case -- Charged With Murder
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Widow Nicole McKinney says Officer Christopher Lloyd shot her husband in cold blood last year. She has hired an attorney to reopen the case.
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A mother is raising twin daughters alone after her husband was shot 17 times by a police officer last year.
The officer was never charged. Now, 2 Investigator Dave Savini is exposing his long history of violence.
Twin sisters Cadence and Cinah McKinney were only 2 months old when their father died.
"They'll never know their dad -- only in pictures," their mother, Nicole, says.
Her husband, Cornell, was a military veteran with a new job as an accountant. McKinney was killed last year by Christopher Lloyd,
the same cop caught by security cameras recently beating a special-education student at a school in Dolton.
"He was murdered -- he was killed, he was executed in front of his own home," Nicole says.
She says she recognized the officer in the school video because Officer Lloyd is her ex-husband. He's also the person who she says got away with shooting her new husband, Cornell, to death.
Lloyd emptied his gun into McKinney, shooting him 17 times, leaving 24 wounds. Autopsy diagrams show his body riddled with holes.
Nicole says Lloyd continued firing bullets into Cornell's body when it was on the ground, face down.
Chicago Police investigated the killing and cleared Lloyd. Nicole says he was not charged with murder because he was a police officer.
She hired attorney Rahsaan Gordon in hopes of getting the case reopened.
After the 2008 killing, Lloyd was put on leave from his police job in Robbins. He then became a Dolton cop and this year was caught on video breaking a 15-year-old's nose for not tucking in his shirt.
"That looks like him -- an angry man on a rampage," Nicole said of the video.
No criminal charges were filed in that case, either.
Lloyd was finally arrested in September, for raping an Indiana woman.
"If he had been put in jail when he was supposed to be put in jail he wouldn't have had the means or the wherewithal or even the time to hurt anybody else," Nicole said.
Before Lloyd allegedly raped the woman, beat the student and repeatedly shot McKinney, he shot two other people.
During a court hearing last year, Lloyd said as a Chicago Housing Authority police officer he was involved in two deadly altercations deemed "clean shoots."
Nicole McKinney says Cornell did have a gun because he used to work security, but his gun was tucked in the back of his pants.
Attempts to reach Lloyd were unsuccessful.
Asked for a response about the case, the Cook County State's Attorney's office issued this statement: "This incident was investigated by police detectives and it was determined this was a case of self-defense. If investigators present us additional information regarding this matter, it will be reviewed and (we will) take the appropriate action."
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