Family says 21-year-old Jamel Henton was the man stabbed to death while trying to diffuse a violent confrontation outside of his Edgewater apartment
He was identified Sunday as Jamel Henton, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office."I guess it started then when he was little -- the protector. That was Jamel. He was a protector," Henton's mother, Aisha Barton said.
Adorned in her youngest child's shirt and hat, Barton is still in disbelief that her son was murdered while only trying to help others. Police said a woman with a knife was arguing with a man and another woman on the sidewalk in front of the Foster Beach Apartments in the 5200-block of North Sheridan Road just after 11:40 p.m. Wednesday when Henton tried to intervene.He was stabbed in his chest and then rushed to the hospital, where he died.Isis Monae lived and was arrested.
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