Report: Chicago man dies protecting mother from gunfire
CHICAGO -- A young Chicago man died Saturday shielding his mother from gunfire on the front porch of a home, reports the Chicago Tribune.
James Jones, 21, was reportedly on the porch with his 46-year-old mother Alicia Jones around noon Saturday when a gunman approached from a passageway and opened fire.
"He used his body to shield her, to save her," said Dietra Luckett, Alicia Jones' sister, told the paper.
Luckett told the paper she believed the shooting was gang-related and that James Jones was the target, but police said only that it was gang-related.
Alicia Jones was reportedly wounded and taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Luckett said her sister is a mother of four who has now lost three children to violence in Chicago. Jones' daughter, Antoinette Means, was 19 when she reportedly died in 2006 during a robbery at the restaurant where she worked. The teen's four-year-old half-brother Curtis Jones Jr. was killed in 1994 by a Molotov cocktail thrown through the window of their home, the paper reported.