Woman fatally shot in Woodlawn apartment identified

The 25-year-old was found about 10:35 p.m. inside a first-floor apartment in the 6500 block of South Greenwood Avenue with a gunshot wound to the face. She was dead at the scene at 10:56 p.m., officials said.

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A woman found shot to death Tuesday night in Woodlawn has been identified.

Emani V. Humphrey, 25, was found about 10:35 p.m. inside a first-floor apartment in the 6500 block of South Greenwood Avenue, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Humphrey, of the same block where she died, suffered a gunshot wound to the face and was pronounced dead at 10:56 p.m., officials said

Other details of the shooting weren’t immediately known.

Detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.

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