A baby girl who was born after her pregnant mother was shot to death on Chicago’s far South Side has died too, according to authorities.
The girl’s mother, 20-year-old Charnella Lemon, was sitting in a parked vehicle in a parking lot in Fernwood with 33-year-old Terrence Carter on Friday morning when someone approached them on foot and shot them both.
Charnella, of Dolton, was shot three times in the chest and taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she lived long enough to deliver her daughter before she was pronounced dead.
The baby, Jenae, had been listed in critical condition, but the Cook County medical examiner’s office said she died Monday afternoon.
Charnella Lemon, 20, (pictured) was shot three times in the chest on Friday, but lived long enough to deliver a baby girl, Jenae
Charnella’s baby girl was in critical condition and died on Monday at four-days-old
Charnella’s friend Steven Ross shared this picture of her on Instagram, calling her a ‘free spirit’
Carter, of Sauk Village, was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene.
A police spokesman said the shooting may have been domestic-related, but Steven Ross, a friend of Charnella, told DailyMail.com that he believed something different.
‘From rumors I understand there was a problem with [Terrence] and the shooter,’ he said, adding that was she was ‘a free spirit’.
Friends of Charnella, known to them as ‘Nella,’ have taken so social media to mourn her, and give condolences to her mother, Juanita, who she leaves behind.
Friends of Charnella took to social media to mourn her and say prayers for her mother, Juanita (pictured with daughter Charnella)
Charnella was sitting in a parked car with 33-year-old Terrence Carter when they were gunned down on this street in Fernwood, Chicago, on Friday. He died at the scene
No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing (pictured is the scene of the crime)
‘You always had a smile on your face and always was making somebody laugh with your crazy self,’ wrote one of her friends Aliah Asad.
‘I could go on for days about the mark you left on my heart. You just took a piece with you with this news’.
Another friend, Jessica Williams, said Charnella ‘was the sweetest little girl in school’ and ‘always had a smile on her face’.
Charnella’s friend Steven also wanted to make sure the world knew the baby girl’s full name: Janae Nicole Miracle Lemon.
Baby Jenae is the 526th person to be murdered in Chicago this year, and the third to die in the three days since October began, according to DNA Info.
As of Tuesday afternoon, no arrests have been made in the shooting and the investigation continues.