A 27-year-old woman tried to get away when two gunmen approached her vehicle but was fatally wounded on the South Side in the Greater Grand Crossing area, Chicago police said.
Just before 11:15 a.m., the victim and a 30-year-old woman were in a car in the 7000 block of South Vernon Avenue when two men approached brandishing guns, police said.
The victim ran away, but one of the men opened fire, hitting her in the head. She was taken to UChicago Medicine where she was pronounced dead.
The gunman and the person he was with fled the scene in an unknown direction.
No one was detained and the police investigated.