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Aaren OConnor, a 25-year-old white woman, was struck by a stray bullet on February 5, 2016, in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood and later died of her wounds. She had moved to Chicago from San Diego to pursue her career and be closer to a long-distance boyfriend and worked at Tomy, a toy company in Oak Brook. On the evening of the shooting she was sitting in her car outside her apartment talking to her father when a bullet fired during a nearby gang-related altercation hit the back of her head. She was taken to John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County in critical condition and died two days later.

Police reviewed private video and a CTA bus camera as part of a CPD investigation into the gang activity around the shooting, but no arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved. Tomy established a scholarship fund in her memory. Does anyone have information about that evening or the area around her apartment that could help investigators?