Practice English Speaking&Listening with: Woman Shot And Killed While Sleeping In Washington Park

DEVELOPING RIGHT NOW, A

WOMAN IS SHOT AND KILLED WHILE

SLEEPING IN HER SOUTH SIDE

APARTMENT.

I'M MARISSA BAILEY

I'M ERIN KENNEDY.

DOROTHY JOINS US LIVE FROM THE

NEIGHBORHOOD PARK.

Reporter: GOOD MORNING, WE

ARE STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF

THE WINDOW WHERE A MOTHER OF

THREE WAS -- SHE LOST HER LIFE

WHILE SHE WAS SLEEPING.

40-YEAR-OLD RHONDA HUGHES LIVED

IN THE BASEMENT APARTMENT THAT

YOU SEE RIGHT HERE BEHIND ME.

YOU SEE THE BULLET HOLE, THE

BROKEN GLASS, THE SHOOTING

HAPPENED AROUND 5:30 THIS

MORNING.

I GOT A REPORT OF A PERSON

SHOT, KING 5258 ON KING.

BULLET CAME IN TO THE HOUSE,

GRAZED THE MOM WHILE THEY WERE

SLEEPING.

Reporter: ACCORDING TO

POLICE, A MAN SIMPLY WALKED UP

TO THE APARTMENT, FIRED FIVE OR

SIX SHOTS DIRECTLY INTO THE

WINDOW, HITTING HUGHES WHILE

SHE WAS ASLEEP ON HER COUCH.

POLICE DON'T BELIEVE THAT

HUGHES WAS THE INTENDED TARGET

BUT SOMEONE IN HER HOUSE MAY

HAVE BEEN.

WHILE THE INITIAL RADIO REPORT

SAID THE BULLET GRAZED THE

MOTHER, SHE WAS TAKEN TO

STROGER WHERE SHE DIED.

NEIGHBORS WHO HEARD THE SHOTS

EXPRESS THEIR CONDOLENCES TO

THE FAMILY.

FOUR OF FIVE SHOTS IN A

RAPID SUCCESSION, POW, POW,

POW.

THE NEIGHBOR WAS IN HER

BASEMENT AND I PRAY FOR HER

FAMILY AND LOVED ONES THAT

SHE'S SAFE AND IT'S OKAY AND

THEY FIND THE CULPRITS.

Reporter: POLICE SAY

WITNESSES ONLY HAVE A VAGUE

DESCRIPTION OF THE SUSPECT.

A MAN IN HIS 20s.

WHAT STOOD OUT THEY SAY WAS HE

WAS WEARING ALL RED.

OF COURSE THEY ARE STILL

INVESTIGATING.