A 43-year-old woman who was shot and killed Thursday afternoon on the South Side in the Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood has been identified.
The woman was inside her residence in the 6800 block of South Cornell Avenue shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday when she was approached by a teenage boy who pulled out a firearm and fired shots at the victim, Chicago police said.
The teenage boy fled the scene.
The victim was shot four times in the head and taken to UChicago Medicine where she was later pronounced dead. She was identified as Tatanisha Jackson in the same neighborhood where she was killed, according to the Cook County Coroner’s Office.
No one was detained and the police investigated.