Woman fatally shot in Roseland

She was on a sidewalk in the 9600 block of South Perry Avenue when she was shot in the back of the head, police said.

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A woman was fatally shot early Saturday in the Roseland neighborhood.

Sun-Times file

A woman was shot to death early Saturday in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.

Porcha Dixon, 22, was walking on a sidewalk in the 9600 block of South Perry when shots were fired about 4 a.m., according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

She was hit in the back of the head and pronounced deceased at the scene, police said.

No one was in custody.

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