A woman was shot and killed Tuesday evening in West Pullman on the Far South Side.
The woman, 20, was sitting in a parked car in the 12200 block of South Wallace Street when someone opened fire about 6:15 p.m., striking her in the head, Chicago police said.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The woman was identified as Laniyah Murphy.
No one was in custody.
Thirty-five people were killed in West Pullman in 2021 — 15 more than what the community had the year prior, and 29 more than what the area recorded in 2019, according to Sun-Times data.