“When his phone remained in the same position for an hour and he didn’t answer, I went home to check on him, and I saw the crime scene unit,

“I didn’t see the scene, thank God, but I saw the detectives and confirmed my worst nightmare.

“I felt absolute fear, you know, you don't expect to open your door and see a fire next to you.

“When we were in our living room, and we thought that another sporadic rainstorm hit Chicago, so we go outside in the windows, next thing you know, we just hear like lights everywhere

“a miscommunication on monitoring my young grandson that recently led to him getting out of our house

“That was the straw that broke the camel's back. I wanted to take action.

“Let me say this: If it was hand-to-hand and more people were getting killed, people would be banging the doors down,

“We could hear all the banging and the flames going up,