Shooting leaves woman, 43, dead in South Shore

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A woman was shot and killed by a teenage boy in the South Shore neighborhood Thursday afternoon, police said.

Police said at 3:55 p.m., the 43-year-old woman was in the residential building at that address when a 17-year-old boy shot her.

The woman was shot four times in the head, and was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said.

The boy ran off, police said. A gun was recovered at the scene, but the shooter remained at large Thursday night, police said.

Police scoured the neighborhood in search of the boy after the shooting. Meanwhile, forensic evidence technicians lined up along busy Stony Island Avenue right behind the block where the shooting took place.

Wentworth Area detectives are investigating.