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Lathem’s defense, however, told jurors Monday that Warren was the only killer, characterizing him in opening statements Monday as a gold-digger and catfisher who killed Cornell in a jealous frenzy after initiating an online romance with Lathem. Warren acted alone, but framed Lathem in his statements to police and prosecutors, they said, and promised that the physical evidence will contradict what Warren told authorities.

The woman who died, 25, was sitting in a car with another woman in the 6500 block of South Calumet Avenue when both were shot shortly before 1:30 a.m., police said. The 27-year-old was shot in the head and taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 1:50 a.m., according to information from the Cook County medical examiner’s office. She had not been identified Tuesday morning.

“This is an isolated incident, we have a great community and don’t see anything like this. The mayor was just really shook by it and will continue to be upset,” Taylor said. “Hopefully, hopefully, someone has a camera on their house, on their door or someone saw something so we can begin the process of trying to get the information out to the community so we can try to put this thing together and find these people. We’re hoping, we’re praying.”

“At a moment of great disruption when I think all of us are worried about some trend lines out there to the degree to which people’s fears and in some cases and legitimate concerns about globalization and technology and migration and social media, all of these things are converging,” he said. “What we’ve seen is that there’s one possibility in which we work through that and come out on the other side more unified, more inclusive, more just, more environmentally sustainable in terms of how we organize our economy and our society, and there’s another path in which we become more divided, more tribal.”