21-year-old woman shot to death in Edgewater

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A 21-year-old woman was shot in the head while sitting in a vehicle stopped at red light in the 5900 block of North Ridge early Monday. | Network Video Productions

A 21-year-old woman was shot to death early Monday in the Edgewater neighborhood on the North Side.

Karina Soria-Bautista and a male were in a vehicle stopped at a red light in the 5900 block of North Ridge about 12:55 a.m. when another male got out of a gray car nearby and opened fire, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Soria-Bautista, of the 4900 block of North Rockwell, was shot in the head and taken to Presence Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston where she was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.

A police source said the male sitting in the vehicle’s passenger seat is a documented gang member. He was not injured in the shooting.

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