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13-Year-Old Amaria Jones Was Showing Mom Dance Move When She Was Shot

Amaria died dancing. "She was showing me this dance called TikTok," said her mother, Lawanda Jones.

CHICAGO (CBS) — A total of 102 people were shot in Chicago over the Father’s Day weekend, between Friday evening and 5 a.m. Monday. Thirteen of those people were killed, including at least five children.

As CBS 2’s Chris Tye reported, one of those children was Amaria Jones, 13, who was in the middle of showing her mom a dance move at their West Side home when a gunman – still on the loose – ended a life loaded with promise.

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