A man remains in custody on murder charges after a woman was fatally assaulted last week in Riverdale on the Far South Side.
Shaniqua Kinnard, 30, was found unresponsive around 8:10 a.m. Friday inside a home in the 13000 block of South Martin Luther King Drive, according to Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Kinnard was pronounced dead at 8:48 a.m., the medical examiner’s office said. An autopsy determined she died from multiple injuries from an assault and her death was ruled a homicide.
Jarve Toms-Dixon, 30, was arrested Sunday. He was charged Tuesday with one felony count of first-degree murder, police said.
Toms-Dixon, of Roseland, was ordered held in custody while pending trial during a court hearing Wednesday.