Jeanette Laureano fatally shot while sitting in her car in Belmont Gardens

A woman was fatally shot sitting in her vehicle in Belmont Gardens on Friday evening. | Network Video Productions

A woman was fatally shot sitting in her vehicle in Belmont Gardens on Friday evening. | Network Video Productions

A woman who was fatally shot Friday evening in the Belmont Gardens neighborhood on the Northwest Side has been identified as Jeanette Laureano.

Laureano, 24, was sitting in a parked car just before 6 p.m. in the 2700 block of North Kilbourn when another car pulled up. Someone got out of that car and shot her in the chest, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Laureano, of the 2200 block of North Nagle, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 6:36 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy found she died of multiple gunshot wounds.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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