"It really hurts... We all had a great bond with my mom, and it hurts to have lost her so soon," said one of the woman's three children.

"They took it from us, it's not fair," he added. An initiative to raise funds to help with the family's funeral expenses has raised more than $5,000 as of Monday. "All she heard was gunshots and she said my mom made a signal like she couldn't breathe, and then she leaned on Amy's shoulder," a relative said.