A civilian with a gun saved the day during a carjacking attempt in Chicago, the city that has struggled to curtail violence in recent years to the point that it has gotten the nickname “Chiraq” by some of its residents, referencing its war zone-like violence in the rougher parts of town. Now, one citizen took matters into his own hands, saving the day with his personal carry firearm.
On Wednesday last week, Chicagoan Jaquita Sims was on her way to the O’Hare International Airport when her car suffered a flat tire that caused her to stop. Unable to use her own car, Sims was offered a ride by her 65-year-old coworker. According to Fox News Digital, this was when the trip went awry, and Sims found herself in a dire predicament.
Four armed men approached Sims and her coworker in their Toyota Corolla, showing weapons and threatening to use force if the two chose not to exit the vehicle. That was when her coworker produced his legally owned firearm and unloaded the five-round clip at the thugs, dispensing of them but not before a gunfight broke out in the streets in the West Side of Chicago.
Both of the occupants of the car were wounded, with Sims suffering a shot to the chest and a flesh wound being made on the thigh of her coworker. The two rushed to the hospital, where aid was administered by doctors and nurses. Both have now been released from the hospital in stable condition.
Jaquita’s mother, Janice, was not at all pleased with the violence that nearly took her daughter’s life. She said, “If you see all those bullet holes and only one hit my child. That’s a miracle. Angels covered her. God covered my daughter. Thank you, Lord.”
Janice clearly held strong to her faith in the hours after the incident, as she once again thanked God for her daughter’s safety, saying, “When I see this car and all the bullets on her side of the car, and she was the passenger, and it’s about 20 bullets just on her side. And only one of them hit her, and it didn’t kill her. Thank you, Lord.”
Terrell Stevens, Sims’ pastor, also spoke about the events and talked about the shame that he felt for those who committed such acts of violence against innocent Chicago residents. He said, “It’s just sad that a person trying to make a living could almost lose their life just trying to make a living. And so those that are out there with gun violence – this is somebody’s daughter. You’re not just shooting at random targets.”
Janice Sims made her final plea to stop gun violence, saying, “Somebody else’s mother is going to get the same call that I got this morning – that their child got shot, by the same people, because the guns are still in their hand. And they’re going to do it again, and we’ll never know who they are – ’cause they shoot and they run.”
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