July 01--Police are investigating the death of a 49-year-old woman found early Tuesday in the Lawndale neighborhood on the city's West Side.
About 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to a call in the 4300 block of West Flournoy Street where they found the woman unresponsive inside a third-floor unit of an apartment building, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a Chicago Police Department spokesman. She was pronounced dead.
The woman was identified as Vanessa V. Taylor of the same address where she was found dead, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Police did not immediately say how the woman died but said it was a homicide. Early Tuesday, a person was being questioned in the woman's death, and police said the incident appeared domestic-related.
