Baby delivered after pregnant woman fatally shot in Jeffery Manor: police

CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A pregnant woman was found fatally shot early Tuesday morning in Jeffery Manor on the South Side.

According to police, officers responded to a a ShotSpotter alert in the 2100 block of East 95th Place around 12 a.m. and found the woman lying on a porch, unresponsive, with two gunshot wounds to her back.

Stacy Jones, 35, was rushed to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition but later died, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

According to police, the woman was eight months pregnant. Doctors at the University of Chicago Medical Center were able to deliver her baby, who remains in critical condition at Comer Children’s Hospital, CBS 2 reported.

No one is in custody. Area Two detectives are investigating.