Son Dies While Shielding Mum From Gunman In Chicago
A 21-year-old, James Jones, reportedly lost his life while shielding his mum, Alicia Jones, from a spray of bullets outside their Chicago home.
“He used his body to shield her, to save her,” the mum’s sister, Dietra Luckett, told the Chicago Tribune of her nephew’s deed.
He had been home at the 8400 block of South Colfax Avenue while out on parole after serving a prison sentence for attempted burglary, the Sun-Times reported.
A gunman approached the home and opened fire, giving Jones only enough time to protect his mother.
The aunt blamed his death on gang violence.
He is the third child Jones has lost to Chicago violence since 1994 when her son, Curtis, was killed by a Molotov cocktail chucked through a window, the Tribune reported citing its archives.
Her daughter, Antoinette Means, a 19-year-old high school valedictorian, was murdered in 2006 when a gunman robbed a KFC where she worked.
The mother was hospitalized in critical condition and has since been asking for her son, not realizing he died protecting her, Luckett said.
The gunman is yet to be identified.
Source: nydailynews
True son he is! RIP brave boy
This is so sad. 3rd child dead and in wonder how she will be feeling. Something should be done about this gang crisis
Message.. Saw dis already!!! What a hero
Oh my!…..I wonder how this woman would survive when she recovers!…
I pray God helps her
What a sad story.
May his soul rest in peace.
You are so going to heaven
The US needs a serious gun control law passed so as to put an end to all this rubbish going on. May his soul RIP. Amen
Lord have mercy this is so sad
Crime everywhere so sad
Jesus christ. What violence
Cheii 3rd child? My God something is wrong somewhere rip brAve man
hmmnn.rip bro.so touching
Ehyaaa brave boy.May his soul RIP
Wow…… This is so sad! 3 kids to violence? Hard pills to swallow. May God give her the fortitude to bear the irreparable lost.
Oh dear! May his soul RIP.
May God bless his soul.
Wat a brave boy! May his soul rest in peace n may God give de mum de strength to withstand dis one.
Poor woman.How is she going to recover from this?May the Lord strengthen her.RIP to her son
So pathetic… I feel for the woman, may God give her the fortitude to bear the lost.