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Motorcycle Assailants Kill Woman, Wound Two in Back of the Yards

Detectives have not announced any arrests or suspect details.

Overview

  • Police say a 26-year-old woman died and two males, ages 18 and 16, were wounded in a daytime shooting in Back of the Yards.
  • Investigators report the victims were in a car when two suspects on a motorcycle pulled alongside and opened fire.
  • The 16-year-old was in critical condition and the 18-year-old in serious condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
  • No one is in custody, and police have not released descriptions of the suspects as the investigation continues.
  • In a separate Greater Grand Crossing case, a 26-year-old man was shot while leaving a restaurant and died at a hospital, and police opened a homicide investigation.