A 15-year-old Illinois girl was killed in a shooting early Sunday morning in Chicago, police said.
The shooting happened in the Washington Heights neighborhood’s 10600 block of South Sangamon Street at about 12:51 a.m., police said. Officers responded to a call of a person shot and found a 15-year-old girl sitting in a vehicle’s back seat with a gunshot wound to the back of her head.
Police said the Chicago Fire Department transported the victim in critical condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. The medical examiner later identified her as Demea Morris.
No one is in custody and Area Two detectives are investigating. Police did not immediately provide further information about the shooting.
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