Man charged with murder in shooting of 20-year-old woman in Washington Park
A man was charged in the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old woman in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood at the end of June.
Xavier Tousant, 22, was charged with one felony count of first-degree murder.
Chicago police said just after 9:30 p.m. on June 27, officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 5400 block of South Prairie Avenue. Fire crews also arrived 20-year-old Makayla Dean with a gunshot wound to the head.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Tousant was taken into custody on Monday at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse, where he had a court appearance on an unrelated case.
He was due to appear in court for a detention hearing on Wednesday.
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