The Timberwolves announced Karl Anthony-Towns's mother, Jaqueline Towns, has died after battling the coronavirus.
“The Towns family is heartbroken by the untimely passing of Jacqueline Towns due [to] complications as a result of COVID-19,” the Timberwolves said in a statement. “Jackie was many things to many people–a wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. The matriarch of the Towns family, she was an incredible source of strength; a fiery, caring, and extremely loving person, who touched everyone she met. Her passion was palpable and her energy will never be replaced.”
On March 15, Towns announced that his mother had been placed on a ventilator and was in a medically induced coma due to complications with COVID-19.