A 53-year-old woman was dead on the scene and a 19-year-old man was wounded after they were shot while traveling in a vehicle in suburban Schiller Park late Wednesday morning, authorities said.
There was “no immediate danger to residents,” said Schiller Park police in a statement posted on the agency’s Facebook page.
Police were called to the 9500 block of West Lawrence Avenue about 11:50 a.m. for a report of shots fired and found a vehicle plowed into a tree, according to the release.
Inside the vehicle, officers found the woman shot to death and a 19-year-old man who had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, police said.
A representative for the Cook County medical examiner’s office was sent to the scene, and police said the woman was declared dead on the scene.
The 19-year-old was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, police said.
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