The Associated Press reports that the Chicago mother’s son “was shot in the head while sitting in a parked car on the city’s West Side.†After losing two sons and one daughter to gun-related violence more than 10 years ago, Shirley was devastated Saturday.
“Right now, I’m totally lost because Ronnie was my only surviving son,†Chambers told WLS-TV. She continued, “What did I do wrong? I was there for them. We didn’t have everything we wanted, but we had what we needed. They took my only child. I have nobody right now. That’s my only baby.â€
Shirley Chambers’ first son, Carlos, was gunned down in 1995 by a classmate “after an argument,†he was only 18 years old. Five years later, in 2000, Chambers’ daughter, Latoya, and second son, Jerome, were “killed within months of one another.â€
Just after Ronnie Chambers was shot and killed, three men across town–in Chicago’s Southside neighborhood–were gunned down. Two men were found dead while the other was wounded.