Young woman discovered fatally wounded in Belmont Cragin

An 18-year-old woman was discovered fatally wounded in a shooting inside of a residence Wednesday night in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Shortly before 9 p.m., the victim was discovered inside a residence in the 2700 block of North Monitor Avenue, with a gunshot wound to her head. She was taken in critical condition to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood where she later was pronounced dead.

The circumstances surrounding the homicide are under investigation, police said.