Woman found shot dead in bathtub, another woman wounded on sidewalk outside the Gresham home

The 22-year-old woman was found fatally shot in a bathtub in the 8200 block of South Justine Street, Chicago police said.

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Two women were shot, one fatally, Monday morning on the South Side.

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Police were searching for a man who they say shot two women, one of them fatally, early Monday in Gresham on the South Side.

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Shawniece Banks, 22, was found dead in a bathtub with a gunshot wound to her head in the 8200 block of South Justine Street around 5:30 a.m., according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Another woman, 20, was on a sidewalk outside with a gunshot wound to her face, police said. She was hospitalized in serious condition at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

Police said they were looking for a male suspect. No arrests were reported.

Police did not release more information.

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