Jennifer Ponton shot to death in Uptown

Jennifer Ponton was fatally shot in the Uptown neighborhood early Wednesday.

Ponton, 24, was a passenger in a vehicle traveling in the 4500 block of North Broadway when gunfire erupted about 1:50 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.

Ponton, of the 1200 block of Madison Court in downstate Bradley, was shot multiple times, authorities said.

The driver took her to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she was declared dead at 3:16 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Nobody has been charged for the killing.

Area North detectives are investigating.

— Sun-Times Media Wire, Network Video Productions

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