A woman was shot and killed Thursday afternoon after she was set upon by a trio, one of whom fired numerous shots at her in the city’s North Lawndale neighborhood, according to Chicago police.
The 33-year-old victim was sitting inside a white sedan in the 1600 block of South Ridgeway Avenue just after 2:30 p.m. when the three offenders approached and one pulled a firearm and opened fire, police said.
The woman, who suffered wounds to her face and torso, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said. Her identity wasn’t immediately released.
The crime scene spanned from the 1600 block of Ridgeway to the 1800 block, with 22 evidence markers set up south of 18th Street as neighbors looked on from a nearby grey two-flat. One neighbor who asked not to be identified said she had passed the parked white sedan with tinted windows as she arrived home and noticed that it pulled forward and reversed in its spot. “It was parked, but it kept going back and forth,” she said.
The woman had just stepped into her home when the first shots rang out. Then a few more shots. Then, many more shots were fired off quickly. “Look at this,” the neighbor told a Tribune reporter as a young boy peered through the screen door. “We can’t let our kids outside.”
North of 18th Street, Ogden district officers and police detectives clustered around the white sedan that had crashed into the curb; every door on the car was open. Evidence technicians and detectives headed into neighboring backyards with more evidence markers in hand.
Police provided no more information on the shooting as the investigation by Harrison Area detectives got underway.
