Authorities on Monday identified a north suburban woman shot and killed in what police have described as a domestic dispute.
Olga Duchon, 42, was found with a gunshot wound late Sunday afternoon in the 400 block of West Russell Street in Barrington, according to a Barrington police news release.
Duchon, of the 800 block of Saugatuck Trail in Vernon Hills, was pronounced dead at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, police said. The Lake County coroner’s office did not immediately respond to an inquiry about the results of the autopsy Monday afternoon.
Police said they were still investigating the shooting.
Maria Hrycelak, president of the Ukrainian Medical Organization of North America Foundation, said Duchon had been the featured speaker in a lecture on obesity management in Wheeling hours before she was killed.
The event ended at 4 p.m. Sunday, Hrycelak said. Police said they responded to a call of a person shot at 5:40 p.m.
Hrycelak said her death was a shock, describing Duchon as “a very bright, smart, well-trained young lady.” Duchon was “well-known” as an endocrinologist around the northwestern suburbs, she said, and the mother to a young child.
Duchon worked for the Northwestern University Health system until 2023 but was still treating patients as an independent physician in some of the system’s suburban hospitals, a spokesperson for the hospital system said.
