13-year-old Girl Killed By Stray Bullet While Dancing In Living Room

[Sugar Cookie]

A 13-year-old girl died after she was struck by a stray bullet in a shooting that also wounded two boys Saturday in Austin.

The girl was inside a home about 8:30 p.m. when the shots were fired and she was struck in the neck, Chicago police said. She was taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified her as Amaria Jones.

An autopsy conducted ruled Jones’ death a homicide, the medical examiner’s office said.

Two boys, 15 and 16, were sitting on a porch when one of them noticed a red laser pointing at him and heard gunfire, police said. The younger boy was struck in the back and the older boy was struck in the leg.

The boys were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition, police said.

No one was immediately in custody.

Girl, 13, killed by stray bullet in Austin shooting; 2 boys also shot

The boys, ages 15 and 16, were sitting on a porch when someone fired at them, authorities said. Amaria Jones, who was inside a home, was struck in the neck.

chicago.suntimes.com

The bullet went through a “Chicago Lives Matter” sign hung and still hangs.

“They talk about the police killing — killing our citizens. They’re killing each other off,” Lawanda Jones said. “Our kids are not safe no more. Period. You can’t sit on your porch. You can’t even be in your own house. You’ll get killed.”

Lawanda Jones said she joined a club this weekend to which she never wanted membership.

“No one want to be a member of burying their child,” she said. “It’s supposed to be is — them burying us, not us burying them.”

“To the other parents whose kids got shot — my heart goes out to them too, because don’t nobody know what it’s like unless you are in these shoes, to lose a child,” Lawanda Jones said. “You might sympathize with us, but you ain’t going to feel the pain until it actually happens.”

Lawanda Jones also lost a nephew to gun violence one year ago, just three blocks from where her daughter was shot and killed this weekend.

She is calling on the person who shot and killed her daughter this weekend to turn themselves in. She said the idea of burying her own daughter is often just too difficult to bear.

13-Year-Old Amaria Jones Was Showing Mom Dance Move When She Was Killed By Stray Bullet In South Austin

Amaria Jones, 13, who was in the middle of showing her mom a dance move at their West Side home when a gunman – still on the loose – ended a life loaded with promise.

chicago.cbslocal.com

Teenage girls sobbed, grown men held onto each other and others yearned to relive sweet memories Friday as they mourned 13-year-old Amaria Jones at a packed West Side church.

Amaria was killed last month when a stray bullet pierced her body while she danced in the living room of her family’s Austin home. The teenager was one of the 104 victims of gun violence over a violent Father’s Day weekend in Chicago. She was also among several children who have been shot or killed in the city in the past two weeks.

“Showing me a dance, she got shot in the throat and fell to the floor and reached out to me. And there was nothing I could do. Nothing,” Amaria’s mother, Lawanda Jones, said through tears outside the Greater St. John Bible Church. “To watch your baby bleed to death — my life will never be the same. Never.”

Most of the crowd Friday was dressed in Amaria’s favorite color — purple. Some mourners, wearing shirts, masks and headbands with the teenager’s nickname, “Ya-Ya,” had to pause in the lobby, bracing themselves for what they would see inside: Amaria in a purple casket covered with photos, next to the teenager’s No. 12 basketball jersey.

Hundreds mourn 13-year-old girl killed by stray bullet while dancing in living room

Amaria Jones was killed over Father’s Day weekend. She had just finished sixth grade at John Hay Community Academy.

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[Sejanus]

Utter savagery.
To some scumbags No Lives Matter.

 

[notchback]

Just nuke Chicago.

 

[Prettypink513]

“Showing me a dance, she got shot in the throat and fell to the floor and reached out to me. And there was nothing I could do. Nothing,”

This is what got me. So heartbreaking. So senseless

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Mom probably kept her daughter out of the streets to keep her safe only to find out that inside the home was no safer for Amaria.