Crime & Safety
Dead Woman's Face Beaten So Savagely Neighbors Can't ID Her: Report
The victim's body was found Thursday in the same block of East Garfield Park that was the scene of a fatal Father's Day shooting.
CHICAGO, IL — Police are still trying to identify a dead woman whose bloodied and half-naked body was discovered early Thursday on the West Side, according to ABC 7 Eyewitness News. Investigators say the victim was between 40 to 50 years old, and she had sustained defense wounds to her body, as well as blunt trauma to her face, the report stated. In fact, her facial injuries were so severe that residents of the East Garfield Park neighborhood told the TV station they couldn't be sure if they knew the woman.
According to police, the body was found around 1:15 a.m. in the 3500 block of West Huron Street, the report stated. No screams or other sounds of a struggle were heard by neighbors at the time, and investigators believe that might mean the victim had been killed at another location before her body was dumped in the area, the report added. (Get Patch real-time email alerts for the latest news for the West Side and Chicago — or other neighborhoods. And iPhone users: Check out Patch's new app.)
An autopsy is scheduled Thursday, and so far, no one has been taken into custody by police.
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The block in East Garfield Park where the unidentified woman was found also was the scene of a Father's Day shooting that killed Tiara Viramontes, 17, and wounded a 30-year-old man. Shots were fired at around 4:48 a.m. Sunday, June 18, fatally hitting Tiara in the head and critically injuring the man in the upper right leg, WGN-TV News reports. No one has been apprehended in the case, the report added.
Tiara's mother started a GoFundMe campaign to cover the funeral costs for her daughter, a student at Marine Leadership Academy who played basketball and softball.
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"Tiara Viramontes was a loving and caring daughter, sister, aunt, friend, cousin, niece, and loved by many," the mother wrote on the web page. "Tiara was very full of life and if you ever met her you wouldn't forget her. … It's so unbelievable, so shocking, no words could describe what I have been faced with."
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