Woman shot during attempted carjacking in West Garfield Park reflects on the attack: ‘I thought I was dead already’

Shooting victim Jaquita Sims and her boyfriend, William Thomas. Sims and a co-worker were on their way to work at O’Hare Airport early Wednesday when three people got out of an SUV and demanded the co-worker’s car. Sims and her co-worker were wounded. (Provided)

As gunfire erupted in a carjacking attempt Wednesday morning in West Garfield Park, Jaquita Sims was sure she was taking her final breath.

My co-worker, whose car they were in, “thought I was dead already, and I thought I was dead already, too,” Sims told the Chicago Sun-Times.