Chicago shooting: 15-year-old girl shot to death inside vehicle in Washington Heights ID'd

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Easter Sunday began in tragedy for one far South Side family after a teen girl was killed in a shooting, Chicago police said.

The shooting happened in the Washington Heights neighborhood's 10600 block of South Sangamon Street at about 12:51 a.m., police said. Officers responded to a call of a person shot and found a 15-year-old girl sitting in a vehicle's back seat with a gunshot wound to the back of her head.

Police said the Chicago Fire Department transported the victim in critical condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. The medical examiner later identified her as Demea Morris.

Detectives cordoned off the area for hours as they searched for shell casings and collected evidence from the vehicle, in which she was located. The grey SUV with Indiana plates had it's rear window shot out.

A motive for the shooting has not been identified, and neither have the people involved in the shooting. It's unclear who else, if anybody was in the vehicle with Morris at the time of the shooting. Police saying they are still looking for the person or persons responsible as the investigation continues. Anyone with information that could lead to an arrest is encouraged to call detectives at Area 2.

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