Jacqueline Towns, the mother of NBA player Karl-Anthony Towns, died on Monday due to complications as a result of the novel coronavirus, according to a statement from a Towns family spokesperson released by Towns’ team, the Minnesota Timberwolves.
“The Towns family is heartbroken by the untimely passing of Jacqueline Towns due to complications as a result of COVID-19,” the statement said.
She had been “battling the virus for more than a month” when she ultimately succumbed to it, according to the statement.
Towns made his mother’s struggle with Covid-19 public in an emotional video released in late March. In it, he announced that his mother had been put on a ventilator in a medically induced coma.
He said he shared the video in the hopes that everyone would stay at home.
Prior to publicly sharing his mother’s condition, Towns made a $100,000 donation to the Mayo Clinic to assist in its effort to combat the coronavirus
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