Woman found shot to death in West Pullman

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A woman was found shot to death in a car early Wednesday behind a home in the Far South Side West Pullman neighborhood.

Officers were called at 1:15 a.m. about a suspicious vehicle in the 11900 block of South Yale, according to Chicago Police. They arrived to find a blue Buick Regal on a parking slab behind a home.

Sharine Catchings, 30, of the North Lawndale neighborhood was in the front passenger seat with a gunshot wound to the head, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. She was dead at the scene.

Her death was ruled a homicide. Area South detectives are investigating.

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