A mom's plea, shouted from edge of murder scene: 'Pick my son up like he's human'
CHICAGO - When the men finally came to take her son's body from the sidewalk, Sabrina Jones warned them from across 79th Street that she was watching.
"Pick my son up like he's human," she commanded from a gas station parking lot, standing as close as she could to the yellow crime tape separating onlookers from the crime scene. "Don't throw him."
His dad chose his first name, Riel. She chose his middle name, Tovar. His last name was Jones. He was her best friend.
"Who I got now?" she asked. "I ain't got nobody."
Riel Jones, 32, had been standing on the sidewalk in front of Nick's Gyros when someone walked up and shot him around 11:10 p.m. Tuesday, Chicago police said. He had frequented the restaurant in a shopping strip on the northwest corner of 79th Street and Ashland Avenue in the Gresham
