Joliet Woman Fatally Shot In Car With Three Kids Inside
JOLIET, Ill. (CBS) -- A 20-year-old Joliet woman was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon while riding in a car that had three young children inside.
CBS 2's Derrick Blakley reports the children, all under the age of three, were not harmed and neither was another woman who was driving the car.
But 20-year-old Jourdyn Williamson was pronounced dead at Presence St. Joseph Hospital.
Joliet police say Williamson, the three kids, and that female driver were riding in a Saturn car in the 100 block of Mississippi Avenue when several persons waiting on the street opened fire on the car.
The unidentified female driver sped off and drove to the parking lot of the S & T food mart store on Richards Street, just a few blocks away. The driver asked a store clerk to call police, but before he could, officers had arrived.
But Williamson died from a gunshot wound to the forehead and police are still searching for the shooters.
"From what we were told by witnesses in the area, they said subjects were on foot but they could not describe them and then ran from the area," said Joliet Police Deputy Chief Alan Roechner. "There was definitely more than one person involved in the shooting."
The murder occurred around 6:30 Tuesday evening, still daylight. And witnesses telling police they heard between six and eight shots.