Woman shot to death in Roseland

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A woman was shot to death late Tuesday in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Officers responded about 11:35 p.m. to a call of a person shot and found 22-year-old Brittany Leflore lying on the sidewalk in the 10700 block of South Indiana, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Leflore had been shot in the abdomen and left ankle and was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was pronounced dead at 12:13 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said. She lived in the same neighborhood as the shooting.

Area South detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.

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