The mother of a 9-year-old Chicago boy police say was lured into an alley and killed is defending using the funds donated in her son’s name to buy a new car.

CNN reported after the killing:

“Tyshawn Lee was murdered in probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I’ve witnessed in 35 years of policing,” Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told reporters Thursday.

“We’re pretty certain that this is not an accident. He was not a bystander.”

The child was targeted, according to McCarthy, because of his “family relationship with a member of a gang.”

When asked which family member, he identified the boy’s father.

She appeared before cameras in tears Monday:

After the boy’s murder, a GoFundMe account was set up to raise funds for the family so they could bury their son.

As of Saturday afternoon, the fund had grown to over $17,500.

The boy’s mother, Karla Lee, lashed out after it was discovered she had purchased a new car with the funds donors had intended to be used “to help lay her son to rest.”

“I got this sh*t for my protection…I’m pretty sure that’s something my son would have wanted me to do,” she said in one of several Instagram videos that has since been deleted.

“In another video, she says she was afraid of being targeted if she took public transportation,” WGN reports.

“If a m—–f—– telling you they gonna try to take your life, too, because of whatever the f— is going on … they already took my son. I walk to work, I get on the bus. I’m not trying to be a target for nobody,” Lee said in another one of the deleted videos, DNAinfo reports.

The news site adds the father of the 9-year-old, Pierre Stokes, who also uses the alias, “Wooh Gotti,” is selling remembrance t-shirts online, for as much as $45 apiece.

“I understand the mother of my son did wrong by that money but what the news is not telling, that they are only paying for half the cost of everything,” Wooh Gotti, an alias used by Tyshawn’s dad Pierre Stokes, wrote on a separate GoFundMe page, which has also been deleted.

“They are blaming us so they don’t have to pay the full cost of everything. She is in the wrong for doing what she did with the money for our son, just give me a chance to lay my son to rest the right way.”

This was the image accompanying the fundraising page, before it was removed:

A reward of more than $54,000 is being offered to catch the killer.