Man arrested for Wednesday's fatal shooting of woman at Brickyard Mall parking lot

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Police have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman in the parking lot of a Target store at the Brickyard mall Wednesday morning.

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Charges have not been announced.

The woman, 47, was shot several times by someone who approached her in the 6500 block of West Diversey Avenue around 9:30 a.m., police said.

She was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood and pronounced dead. Her name has not been released.

No other information was released.

Shortly after the shooting, officers taped off a crime scene in the middle of the Target parking lot.

36th Ward Ald. Gilbert Villegas told CBS 2 on Wednesday that the woman's 50-year-old husband had driven to the Schiller Park Police Department after the shooting at around 9:30 a.m. to turn himself in.

The shooting happened in the 25th police district, which has seen 29 shootings and eight murders so far this year through Sunday, according to police statistics.

In May 2020, police dragged a woman from her car and pinned to the ground at the Brickyard mall. The woman, Mia Wright, sued the city and and settled for $1.67 million earlier this year.

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Sun-Times Media Wire contributed

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