A young mother who was shot just after dropping her children off over the Memorial Day weekend near their Lawndale home died Friday, after spending the last seven months paralyzed.
Precious Land | Facebook
Precious Land, 27, was shot about 8 p.m. May 28 while she was driving in the 3900 block of West Lexington in the West Side Lawndale neighborhood, according to Chicago Police.
Land, of the 3800 block of West Lexington, was pronounced dead at 9:24 p.m. Friday at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Land had just dropped off her four children at a friend's home when the shooting happened, family members said on Facebook. Just one block west of Land’s home, she suffered a gunshot wound to the neck and was initially taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition.
Land, a mother of four, was left in a coma and paralyzed by the shooting, family and friends said on Facebook. She eventually came out of the coma and was taken home from the hospital, but she remained paralyzed until she passed away.
A GoFundMe page set up to assist the family had raised $42,000 of a $50,000 goal as of Sunday.
On the GoFundMe page, her mother wrote: "I have to get my grand kids away from this madness! This also will help us relocate. Doctors have diagnosed her paralyzed from her neck down. she will never be the same! as she lay Helpless in her hospital bed in the Intensive care unit.
"She leaves behind her Mother Stacey, and her four kids Daveon, Tyreanna, Timia, Jimarrion, that will never be able to enjoy her presence again all because a mistaken identity."
She believes her daughter was not the target, but was killed because gang members thought her car belonged to someone else.
Precious Land's tragedy was documented in a New York Times story on Chicago violence survivors last September.
--Chicago Sun-Times Wire and Homicide Watch Chicago