Woman, 40, fatally shot during altercation on South Side

Woman, 40, fatally shot during altercation on South Side

CHICAGO — A 40-year-old woman was fatally shot after an altercation with a man on the city's South Side. The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in the 8200 block of South Drexel. Police said the woman was in a verbal altercation outside of her house, when a man shot her and fled the scene. The woman was shot in the chest and transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dea…

Chatham woman fatally shot during argument with gunman

Sun-Times file A woman was fatally shot during an argument early Tuesday in Chatham on the South Side. Just after midnight, Lekeysha Taplet, 40, was arguing with a male suspect outside her home in the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue when he pulled out a gun and shot her, Chicago police said. Taplet was struck in the chest and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police and the Cook County medic…