A Chicago hospital worker and her father were found shot to death – after the woman’s 2-year-old son appeared to be alone when he answered a FaceTime call from a worried co-worker.
Javonni Jenkins, 27, and her dad Curtis Hardman, 79, were discovered dead Wednesday in their apartment on South Drexel Avenue in the city’s South Side, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Jenkins’ colleagues at Holy Cross Hospital became worried when she didn’t show up for work and they couldn’t get in touch with her.
Her co-worker Nicole Worth finally got someone to pick up a FaceTime call to her phone – Jenkins’ 2-year-old son CJ.
“I could see that he had no clothes on. He was just in a diaper. So now something’s wrong,”It is worth it.
A colleague asked for police assistance to perform a welfare check of the family.
Worth, along with several friends and colleagues, rushed to the spot. Police entered the apartment at 10:50 AM and made the horrifying discovery.
Jenkins and Hardman died from their injuries. The child did not suffer any injuries.
“The whole time I had the baby on the phone, he was very content, playing with his toys,”Worth said the outlet.
“Once I had that baby on the phone, and after a certain amount of time of no parents calling [for] the baby, you don’t hear that — there’s something wrong,”Sie said.
“We came a little too late,”She spoke out in anguish. “We saved the baby. That’s all we could do.”
The shocking crime that Deputy Chief Police Sonora Ben described as an isolated one, has not led to anyone being arrested.
“I don’t think the public should be concerned,”Ben speaks at a news conference.
Jenkins’ medical assistant, Worth, told NBC Chicago that she saw Jenkins on Tuesday and didn’t feel anything amiss.
When Jenkins’ friends and coworkers went to the apartment Wednesday morning, they noticed that the door was unlocked before police entered, Worth told the outlet.
“[The cops] gave us the baby,”A friend, who was present with Worth in the apartment, spoke on condition that anonymity. “They gave us CJ, and then we walked downstairs until they came in and informed us that [Jenkins] was gone.”
Jenkins’ cousin, Germaine Owens, said his kin didn’t “have an enemy in this world,”Add that “for somebody to take her life — you’ve got to be some demon or monster.”
According to the Sun-Times, Jenkins was adopted by her father after her mother died as a child.
“That girl had a heart of gold,”Worth spoke out in the paper. “She wore her heart on her sleeve. She had a smile that would light up a room. You never saw her down. You knew when something bothered her, but she didn’t speak much of it, but she’d just brush it away.”
Jenkins’ stepsister, Angela Brooks, mourned her slain dad, saying he was the type of father “that every little girl dreamed of.”
According to the Sun-Times, she told them that she “never heard my father have an altercation, raise his voice or get upset.”
Brooks said: “I know my father died protecting my little sister. He was a hero.”
Hardman’s ex-wife said her former spouse would babysit CJ while Jenkins was at work.
“He was a good-hearted person,”Cherry Hardman spoke for the newspaper. “He would help anybody. I could call him and say, ‘Curtis could you come and do this for me?’ and he’d say, ‘OK, give me a minute.’ He helped anybody.”
Family members of the victim’s family claim they are not being provided with any specific information.
The Post reached out to Chicago police.
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