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Antoinette Congo

Case from Chicago, IL dated Sep 11, 2025

Victim Details

Antoinette Congo

Female

Black / African American

Chicago

IL

2025-09-11

36

Antoinette

Congo

07/22/2026

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Antoinette Congo, 36, a Black woman from Chicago, was discovered shortly after midnight on September 11, 2025, after firefighters extinguished a garage blaze in the 6500 block of South Damen Avenue in Englewood. Responders found her unresponsive on the alley apron outside the garage; an autopsy determined she had been shot multiple times—wounds to her left side, back, and the back of her head—and investigators concluded an accelerant was used to start the fire, with the point of origin at he ...
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  • Chicago Sun-Times: Charges filed after woman fatally shot, set afire in Englewood and another kidnapped, sexually assaulted
  • Chicago Sun-Times: Woman fatally shot, set on fire, in Englewood garage blaze: police report
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