--- description: A Chicago gang member was sentenced to 90 years in prison after he shot and killed a pregnant teenage girl who plead with him for her life title: Chicago Gang Member Sentenced for Shooting Pregnant Teen to Death image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc8476cc74bb41cd/69889eb08e060190dc466ce7/timothy-jones-800.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Chicago Gang Member Sentenced for Shooting Pregnant Teen to Death by [Brendan Dorsey](/author/brendan-dorsey/) ## Brendan Dorsey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 21, 2016 8:56 PM CUT  Timothy Jones Timothy JonesCook County Sheriff's Office by [Brendan Dorsey](/author/brendan-dorsey/) ## Brendan Dorsey Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 21, 2016 8:56 PM CUT A Chicago gang member was sentenced to 90 years in prison after he shot and killed a pregnant teenage girl who plead with him for her life, according to [PEOPLE](http://www.people.com/article/chicago-gang-member-sentenced-pregnant-teen-murder "undefined"). Timothy Jones, 23, was sentenced on Monday in Cook County after being convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated discharge of a firearm in the August 2011 killing of Charinez Jefferson, then just 17, prosecutors said in a [release](http://www.statesattorney.org/press%5F90YearsPrison2011MurderPregnantTeen.html "undefined"). Jones saw Jefferson with a rival gang member and fired at him but missed, say prosecutors. Jefferson, who was then 7 months pregnant, was then shot multiple times by Jones before she was killed. Jefferson was begging for her life with Jones before he killed her, according to witness Romell VanTrease, who was quoted in[_Chicago Tribune_](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-pregnant-mother-murder-met-20140914-story.html "undefined"). Jones was swearing at her while he fired at her and she fell to the ground according to the _Tribune,_ that cited prosecutors. “She begged for her life … said, ‘I’m pregnant’,” VanTrease said. Jefferson’s son Kahmani, now 5, did survive the shooting, though he remains “fully incapacitate” with little chance of recovery, according to prosecutors. \[[People](http://www.people.com/article/chicago-gang-member-sentenced-pregnant-teen-murder "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4417738/timothy-jones-charine-jefferson-pregnant-teen/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4417738/timothy-jones-charine-jefferson-pregnant-teen/"},"headline":"Chicago Gang Member Sentenced for Shooting Pregnant Teen to Death","datePublished":"2016-07-21T20:56:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:27:11.963Z","description":"Timothy Jones shot Charinez Jefferson to death as she plead for her life","url":"https://time.com/4417738/timothy-jones-charine-jefferson-pregnant-teen/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc8476cc74bb41cd/69889eb08e060190dc466ce7/timothy-jones-800.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Brendan Dorsey","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/brendan-dorsey/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc8476cc74bb41cd/69889eb08e060190dc466ce7/timothy-jones-800.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"timothy-jones-800","caption":"Timothy Jones","creditText":"Cook County Sheriff's Office","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4417738/timothy-jones-charine-jefferson-pregnant-teen/","name":"Chicago Gang Member Sentenced for Shooting Pregnant Teen to Death"}}]}] ```