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Family and friends gather Jan. 25, 2016, outside the south suburban Lansing apartment where Summer Mitchell, 18, lived before she was found dead a day before with a gunshot wound to the chest. Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
An 18-year-old woman found dead Sunday in her Lansing apartment Sunday died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said Friday.
Police responding to the apartment in the 17700 block of Commercial Avenue about 11:15 a.m. Sunday found Summer Mitchell dead and recovered a semi-automatic pistol and a single spent shell casing next to her body.
The medical examiner’s office ruled that Mitchell died from a gunshot wound to the chest and that her death was a suicide, a spokesperson said Friday.