Jimmie Jackson’s family relaxed when the paramedics finally arrived and started treating the 65-year-old in the ambulance for what they feared was pneumonia, reports The Chicago Tribune.
Until a bullet tore through the windshield.
“It scared me,” said the soft-spoken Jackson, a retired muffler repair shop worker.
Then he thought about his 8-year-old granddaughter, Jasmine, playing outside and got angry. “I was upset. It makes me scared for her safety,” Jackson said. “There’s too much shooting in the neighborhood.”
Jackson’s family had called paramedics to their home in the 5600 block of South Aberdeen Street around 5 p.m. Sunday because Jackson wasn’t eating and they worried he was suffering from pneumonia. Jackson is on dialysis and has a history of heart problems, family members said.
As two paramedics treated him in the back of the ambulance, shots rang out from down the block and shattered the windshield on the driver’s side, according to the Chicago Fire Department and the family. A “large-caliber slug” landed on the floor of the ambulance, fire officials said.
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