Boy, 14, shot to death across the street from where brother was critically wounded years before: ‘Kids feel trapped,’ their mother says

Family, friends, and community members gather in the parking lot of McCullough Funeral Home Wednesday for a balloon release for 14-year-old Pierre Johnson, who was fatally shot last week in the Fuller Park neighborhood. | Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Tharea Johnson has lost two sons on the block where she has lived for nearly four decades in Fuller Park on the South Side.

The first, Paris Johnson, was 18 years old when he was shot in front of the family’s home and left paralyzed.