Early Wednesday morning, a 25-year-old Chicago woman, Jasmin Curry, took a shot to the cranium while driving southbound of Interstate 90/94.
Curry, mother of three boys and two girls, was driving a 2005 Dodge Caravan on the Dan Ryan Expressway when bullets came flying into the vehicle around 4 a.m. She was riding with two other passengers — the unharmed passenger told authorities there was another person in the van, a man, who jumped out and ran away before police could respond to the call of shots fired, according to Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond.
“Now I’ve got to bury another child … I buried my last-born last year and now I’ve got to bury my first-born this year,” said Pierre Curry, father of Jasmin Curry.
According to NBC Chicago, authorities couldn’t immediately say whether the shots were fired at the van or from inside, but Bond said another vehicle, a silver Dodge Intrepid, may have been involved.
Curry’s mother, LaTonia Mardis, said the children were with her when their mother was killed. “She’d just left me, dropped all her kids off,” said Mardis. “I guess the Lord said it was her time and he was ready for her. He didn’t want her to suffer no longer, so he came and got her.”
Curry believes this shooting is somehow related to the killing of his 17-year-old son, Pierre Curry, who was also shot in the head of a vehicle last August. There have been no arrests made yet in either case.
“They got to get these fools,” Curry said.
