A “loving” mother of five in Chicago who was getting ready to celebrate her birthday next week was gunned down and killed while heading to an early morning church service, officials and family say. Her body was found in an alley behind her home.
“This was a senseless act of violence that never should have happened,” wrote 20th Ward Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor in a statement Tuesday. “This tragedy has shaken our community deeply.”
Relatives and friends of Kiara Jenkins, 36, say she was a very religious person who dedicated herself to her church, the Mt. Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church in Woodlawn. She regularly attended its 5 a.m. service and was heading there on Sunday morning when she was killed, according to her family and churchgoers, who spoke to CBS affiliate WBBM about Jenkins’ death…