Blanca A. Winters, 50, was shot and later died on August 5, 2015, at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. An autopsy determined she died from complications of multiple gunshot wounds; she was pronounced dead at 11:58 a.m. The shooting happened along the 1700 block of St. Charles Road, a stretch that passes storefronts and apartment houses before reaching the tracks and industrial edges of the village.

Records list her home address in the 1200 block of East Wilson Street in Batavia, highlighting that she lived well outside Maywood. In the days after the killing, Maywood authorities provided few details, and reporting available at the time did not name a suspect or announce any arrests. Blanca Winters’s death is recorded with few public answers and unanswered questions about what led to her being in that location that day.

If anyone knew Blanca, saw her on August 5, 2015, or has information about the shooting on St. Charles Road, please share what is known.