Shaquandra Ratliff, 20, fatally shot during alley fight on S. Side

Byby Laura Thoren WLS logo
Monday, September 7, 2015
Shaquandra Ratliff, 20, fatally shot during alley fight on S. Side
A young mother was shot and killed reportedly while delivering items for a "death anniversary part" on the city's South Side early Sunday morning.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A young mother was shot and killed reportedly while delivering items for a "death anniversary party" on the city's South Side early Sunday morning.



Shaquandra Ratliff, 20, was fatally shot in the head after a fight broke out around 1:30 a.m. Sunday in an alley on the 6100-block of Cottage Grove in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood.



Family members said Ratliff's wasn't just attending this death anniversary party, she was also delivering buttons with the victim's face on them. It was a new business she had just started before her life was tragically cut short by gun violence.



"She started, she'd go to dollar stores, putting pictures in buttons," said Demarkus Ross, Ratliff's cousin.



The gathering Ratliff was delivering buttons to early Sunday morning was in remembrance of another shooting victim, While Ratliff was at the party a fight broke out and then gunfire.



"She was lying on the ground, right there in an alley," said witness Florence Lewis.



There are many unanswered questions about this shooting. Police say they don't know if the suspects were at the party or if it was a drive-by shooting.



Sunday, Ratliff's family hugged and cried on the porch. They did not talk about the suspects still on the run, but the loss of a mother, daughter, and friend.



1 dead, 1 injured in South Side shooting



Two people were shot, one fatally, on Chicago's South Side Sunday morning.



One woman was shot in the stomach and killed. A 34-year man is being treated for a gunshot wound to his leg.



The shooting happened around 7:45 a.m. Sunday morning on the 7200-block of South Green Street in the city's Englewood neighborhood.



So far no arrests have been made.



Overall, six people have been killed, 25 others wounded in Chicago this Labor Day weekend.


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