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Austin Shooting, Stabbings Kill Marteace Rhone, 27, Wound 3 Others: Police

By Kelly Bauer | July 30, 2016 12:04pm

CHICAGO — One woman was killed and three women wounded after a fight in Austin early Saturday, police said.

At 3:20 a.m., the women were in the 0-100 block of North LeClaire Avenue when they got into a large fight, said Officer Jose Estrada, a Chicago Police spokesman.

A 27-year-old woman was shot in her head and pronounced dead, Estrada said.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified the woman as Marteace Rhone, of the 300 block of North Lotus Avenue.

A 21-year-old woman was shot in her left ear, police said.

Two 28-year-old women were stabbed during the fight. One was stabbed in her left hand and took herself to West Suburban Hospital. The other woman was stabbed in her left wrist and right arm and she took herself to Rush Oak Park Hospital.

No one was in custody.

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