As her wounded 16-year-old son drifted in and out of consciousness after bullets ripped through her West Side home, a desperate S. Allen grabbed a T-shirt to use as a tourniquet."I was frantic. I was scared," Allen, who declined to use her full name out of concern for her safety, recalled to the Sun-Times. "I didn’t want him to go to sleep. ... [I] didn’t know what to do."It was just after 10:30 p.m. Wednesday as the 45-year-old single mom of four grabbed the mop and began to clean the kitchen floor in her two-story home in the 600 block of Lorel Avenue in the Austin neighborhood.She felt a sudden, sharp pain in her lower back, she said, and heard the roar of bullets smashing through the kitchen window and the screams of her youngest. "He's shot!" the 15-year-old yelled.As she stumbled to his side, she clutched a T-shirt thinking she would need it. "He was not bleeding out, so I didn’t know where he was bleeding from. I didn’t want to move him too much," she said. "I just heard shots, and they kept continuing, continuing, continuing," Allen said.When it finally stopped, Allen found one of the bullets tore through her son's hip. Fear gripped her again when she didn't see much blood and worried he was bleeding internally. "Wake up, wake up!" Allen told her son as he struggled to stay conscious. "OK, Mom'' was all he could manage, she recounted. Allen and one of several other panicked relatives called 911, and the teen was loaded into an ambulance and rushed to Stroger Hospital. Doctors told the family the bullet pierced his small and large intestines and that the wounds were too wide to be closed. He was sedated and on a breathing tube Thursday morning. He's expected to remain at Stroger "for a few days," but will need physical therapy after his release, family said. No arrests have been made, and Area 4 detectives are investigating.Since the shooting, the high school sophomore's uncle and younger brother have been at his bedside at the hospital while Allen, who was treated on the scene for a graze wound, stayed at the house.At least 13 shell casings were found inside her home, where her son often enjoys online games. "He is a very, very sweet kid," Allen said of her second youngest. "He comes in, kisses me on the forehead. ... He's not a kid you feel threatened by if you see him walking past." Allen now wants a fresh start, out of the place she and her family have called home for the last eight years. Less than 12 hours after the brazen attack, priceless family photos were yanked from the walls and packed away in boxes. Bags of clothing were lined up throughout the living and dining room. "I know I can't stay here," Allen said. "I can't allow them to kill me, and I don’t want them [killing] my kids. I'm trying to go out of the city, period." Two of Allen's four sons have been shot in Chicago. Her oldest was wounded when he was 20 in 2020 as he walked home from a restaurant on the West Side. "It's devastating," Allen said of the gun violence that again has crushed her family. "I'm a single parent, and to go through this alone isn’t [easy,]" she said as she broke down in tears. A single lit candle rested on the dining room table, a sign of her faith. "I prayed to about five this morning. ... They was not going to take my baby," Allen said. "He's going to go through a lot of healing, but God gave him a chance to live, and to continue, and to just still be here with me."