Tragic! A mother's grief: Four children all gone as a result of gun violence

 

Funeral directors wheeled in the casket of Ronnie Chambers, 33, on Monday as his mother burst into tears.

Shirley Chambers of Chicago had four children - three boys and a girl.

Ronnie Chambers, 21, on right, was the youngest child

Ronnie was the last of the single mother's children to be killed over a period of 18 years.

 

Before she prepared to lay her youngest and last remaining child to rest, Shirley Chambers was a special guest at a Sunday service at a church on the city's West Side held to take up a special collection for the grieving mothers.



Overwhelmed with loss: Chambers collapses during the funeral service for her son Ronnie 
 

Now they are all gone as a result of gun violence.

Ronnie, a music producer, was coming from an album release party  on January 26 when he was gunned down outside a 24-hour diner along with six other people

 



Son without a father: Jenyra Pendleton holds her nephew Carlos Chambers as he touches the casket of his father



 

‘I feel stressed out. I can't eat, I can't sleep, it's killing me,’ Chambers told WBEZ during an appearance on ‘Afternoon Shift’ last week, saying that no one from the city reached out to her following her family's latest tragedy.

She said that several pastors have offered her support