Woman killed, man wounded in West Rogers Park apartment shooting: police

The 49-year-old woman was shot twice in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

A woman was killed and a man wounded in a domestic related shooting Saturday at an apartment in West Rogers Park on the North Side.

About 3:30 p.m., the man and woman, 28 and 49, were inside an apartment in the 6200 block of North Ridge Avenue when someone fired shots at them, striking the woman twice in the chest and the man once in the elbow, Chicago police said. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not yet confirmed the woman’s death.

The man was taken to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston where he was stabilized, police said.

The shooter is known to police and the victims but is not in custody, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. Area North detectives are investigating.