A homeless woman was shot to death in a vacant lot on the near West Side Sunday evening, according to Chicago police.
Police said an unknown man approached the woman, who hadn’t been identified as of Sunday night, and shot her in the head at 1515 S. Laflin St. just before 5:30 p.m. Emergency workers found the woman, estimated to be in her 30s, still breathing, but she was pronounced dead around 6:05 p.m. at Stroger Hospital, according to police.
By 7 p.m., detectives and evidence technicians were moving in and out of an orange tent surrounded by garbage cans and pieces of furniture. Police said the woman had been found inside the tent, which was set up against the southern wall of a vacant lot between two viaducts. Graffiti murals lined both walls.
Police cut the tape on both sides of the lot shortly before 8 p.m. No one was in custody Sunday evening, and Area Three detectives were investigating the shooting.
