Crime News Metro/State

Woman charged with April Rogers Park shooting

Kamiah Alford, 25, is charged with one felony count of aggravated discharge of a firearm, Chicago police said.

By Sun-Times Wire

A woman was arrested and charged in connection with a shooting in Rogers Park in April.

A woman is charged in connection with a shooting that left another woman wounded in Rogers Park in April.

Kamiah Alford, 25, is charged with one felony count of aggravated discharge of a firearm, Chicago police said.

On April 29, Alford allegedly participated in the shooting of a 23-year-old woman in the 7100 block of North Glenwood Avenue, police said.

Alford was arrested Thursday in West Rogers Park.

She was expected to appear in bond court Friday.

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