Woman charged in shooting that killed young mother in South Loop

A woman from Chicago’s northwest suburbs was due in court Thursday in a shooting that killed another woman in the South Loop in September.

Quadajah Johnson, 31, of Des Plaines, was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting that killed Romeca Meeks-Blackmon, also 31, on Cermak Road near State Street.

The shooting happened at 9:06 a.m. Monday, Sept. 8. Meeks-Blackmon had just dropped off her son at school near when police said she got into a fight with another person who pulled out a gun and fired it — shooting Meeks-Blackmon in the face…

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