Louisville mass shooting victim has just moved back to help raise grandkids, daughter says
Juliana Farmer's daughter is opening up about the pain of losing her mother in Monday's mass shooting in downtown Louisville.
"It breaks my heart that I can't see my momma no more," A'lia Chambers said while breaking into tears. "I'm the only girl, and I need my momma."
The mother-daughter bond between Farmer and Chambers was broken much too soon when Farmer, 45, was shot and killed at the Old National Bank Building.
A'lia Chambers lives in Louisville and said she was taking her kids to school and day care when she received a heart-wrenching phone call.
"I got a phone call saying that I needed to get down to the bank. There was an active shooter at my momma's bank," she told CBS News.
Farmer had started her job as a loan analyst at Old National Bank just weeks before the building on Main Street became the scene of a mass shooting. Farmer was shot and killed by the gunman within minutes.
"He killed my momma," Chambers cried. "He took my momma away from me."
Chambers said her mom was from Henderson, Kentucky and had recently moved to Louisville to help raise her four grandchildren. Not long before the shooting, Farmer posted on social media, saying she was happy her fifth grandchild was on the way.
Chambers said it's hard to believe someone so genuine could be a victim of such a tragedy.
"My mom was the sweetest person, loving person. A smile that lit up the room," she said.
Chambers is struggling to come to terms with the fact that her mom went to work on Monday and didn't leave the building alive.
"You're not safe in the world anymore. And that's that's the scary thing about it," she said.
She went on to say something must be done to stop gun violence from taking innocent lives across the country, including her mother's.
Farmer leaves behind many family members, including her daughter, two sons and four grandchildren.