CHICAGO — The death of a five-month-old baby, delivered prematurely after her mother was fatally shot, has been ruled a homicide.
A'Miracle Jones, of the 8700 block of South Marquette, died at 7:55 p.m. Thursday, according to Cook County Medical Examiner's Office records.
An autopsy showed A'Miracle died of complications from prematurity and maternal death in a homicide, according to the Medical Examiner's Office.
The baby girl was born in September when her mother, Parasha Beard, was gunned down in South Chicago. Beard had been pregnant and relatives told the Tribune that doctors were able to save the baby, who was named A'Miracle and born three months premature.
The girl's story inspired people, with inmates at Cook County Jail joining together to donate their commissary money to the family, according to CBS2.
But A'Miracle developed pneumonia and was put on life support. Her family removed her from life support and the baby died Thursday.
"I'm not going to let her suffer no more," the girl's grandmother Crystal Jones told FOX32. "I already lost my daughter."
"Today is a day she's going home, where she's better off, she's not suffering," the grandmother said.
Police have said that the mother was in a car with gang members when she was shot.
