CHICAGO — Police are investigating after a woman was found shot and critically injured near a downtown homeless encampment Thursday morning.
Officers responded to the 1300 block of South Ruble around 3:41 a.m. after a man reported that his friend had been shot. Ruble Street runs parallel and immediately adjacent to the Dan Ryan Expressway south of Roosevelt Road.
When police arrived, they found a 40-year-old woman with a gunshot wound to her head. She was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition.
According to officers at the scene, the man who reported the shooting did not hear any gunfire or know how the woman got shot.
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