A woman found strangled early Thursday on a street in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side was identified as 58-year-old Catherine Saterfield-Buchanan.
She was found unresponsive at 1:14 a.m. in the 3500 block of West Huron, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Police initially said she had suffered “blunt trauma to the face” and had “defensive wounds on her body.” But an autopsy Thursday found Saterfield-Buchanan had been strangled, and her death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s officer.
The medical examiner’s office said her home address was unknown. A police source said she lived in the neighborhood.
Community activist Andrew Holmes said neighbors in the area said the woman was partially naked when she was found.
“She’s somebody’s mother, auntie and somebody’s sister, and unfortunately they’re gonna get that news this morning, once she’s identified,” Holmes said Thursday morning.
The incident came less than a week after 17-year-old Tiara Viramontes was killed and a 30-year-old man wounded in a shooting in the same block.
They were in the back of a building at 4:48 a.m. Sunday when someone opened fire, authorities said at the time. Viramontes, who lived on the block, was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital about 12 hours later.