Vigil held for 2 women killed in Back of the Yards shooting

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Family and friends are gathering for a candlelight vigil to support a Chicago woman who lost her mother and sister in a shooting in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood earlier this week.

What happened Monday night changed Persha Chew's family forever.

"I just want this to be over because I've got to think about my nephew - I've got to think about his future. In a couple of days I've got to be able to tell him that his mom is not coming back," she said.

Patricia Chew, her 11-month-old son Princeton and her mother Lolita Wells were among five people shot at 53rd and Aberdeen Monday. Princeton survived and is out of the hospital.

"He's just being around his family, he's playing, laughing - the same thing he would do any other day before this happened," Persha said.

Persha carried her injured nephew to police that night; police officers broke protocol and took the baby to the hospital.

She says they did the right thing and now she is trying to do right by her sister by helping to raise her recovering nephew and another nephew now without a mother.

"We don't want this to be an excuse for them to grow up and not do what they're supposed to do - because I know my sister and she wants her boy to grow up," Persha said.