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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Sophie Sherry

Mom says son — her ‘gentle giant’ — died ‘saving two people he didn’t know from being hurt or killed’

Jamel Hinton (Family photo)

Standing at 6-foot-10, Jamel Henton was a “gentle giant” who went out of his way to be “kind and respectful to everyone,” his mother recalls.

Last week, Henton went to break up a fight in Edgewater, coming to the aid of two people being attacked, when he was stabbed to death, according to police and his family.

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