Chicago Mother Shirley Chambers Loses Fourth and Final Child to Gun Violence

[Jazzy]

Shirley Chambers raised four kids in Chicago, in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood on the Near North Side, understanding that gun violence in her neighborhood was among the highest in the country.



Prior to this weekend, shootings cost her the lives of three out of her four children.



On Sunday, seven people were killed in Chicago due to gun violence and another six were injured — a rate uncommonly high for one day. One of the seven victims was Ronnie Chambers, Shirley’s last surviving child, who was shot in the head while riding in a van on South Mozart Street early Sunday morning.



A family friend named Laverne Smith, 30, spoke to the Chicago Tribune about the accident. Smith, who lives near the scene, heard the shots and came outside to find Ronnie shot in the head.



Ronnie, 33, has been arrested 29 times according to police, but has lately been “trying to change his life,” Smith said.



Ronnie appeared on “The Ricky Lake Show” in December and identified himself as a former gang member, and was trying to keep others from travelling down that same path.



Sunday night, he had been helping out at an event for an aspiring rapper named YK, and was returning home when he was shot, Smith told police.

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Wonder if him admitting in December he was a former gang member had anything to do with this.

 

[Evil Eye]

Sounds like a good place not to live.