A Latina woman, Blanca A. Winters, 50, died on August 5, 2015, after she was shot in west suburban Maywood. She was pronounced dead at 11:58 a.m. that Tuesday at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood; an autopsy later determined she died from complications of multiple gunshot wounds.
Records listed her home address in the 1200 block of East Wilson Street in Batavia, underscoring the distance between where she lived and where violence found her.
The shooting unfolded along the 1700 block of St. Charles Road, a corridor that threads past storefronts and apartment houses before giving way to the tracks and industrial edges of the village. The 50 year old's name surfaced publicly as; Blanca A. Winters, authorities confirmed her death, and memorial pages marked the date, August 5, 2015, fixing it to a place in Maywood's long ledger of gunfire and grief.
In the days that followed, police said little. As of the medical examiner's confirmation, Maywood authorities could not immediately provide further details about what happened on St. Charles Road, and available public reporting did not name a suspect or announce any arrests connected to the shooting. Blanca A. Winters's killing entered the public record with the sparce language of officialdom and the open space of unanswered questions, a case noted in brief but never resolved in print.
