Woman fatally shot inside home in Gresham

The 25-year-old woman was in the front room of her home in the 7600 block of South May Street when someone fired shots through a window, Chicago police said.

A man was fatally shot August 16, 2021 in Chatham.

A woman was fatally shot inside her home Friday morning on the South Side.

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A woman was fatally shot inside her home in Gresham on the South Side early Friday.

Artilia Cunningham, 25, was in the front room of her home in the 7600 block of South May Street when someone fired shots through a window about 1:45 a.m., Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

She was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead, police said.

No one was in custody.

There have been 34 homicides in the Auburn Gresham community area — three more than the community had for all of last year, according to Sun-Times data.

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