1 woman dead, 6 injured after shots fired in crowd

One woman was killed and six others were injured early Sunday after an argument prompted an unidentified suspect to fire a gun into a crowd in Chicago, according to police.

The shooting took place around 1 a.m. on the 4800 block of W. Iowa St., less than 10 miles west of downtown, Chicago police said in a prepared news release provided to USA TODAY.

Police who responded found a 25-year-old woman unresponsive on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. The woman, who police have not identified, was transported to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she died, police said.

Another six people were also shot, including a 29-year-old man who was in critical life-threatening condition after being shot in the chest and arm, police said.