A 1-year-old girl was found unresponsive inside a home in Chicago’s South Chicago neighborhood on Friday morning and later died at the hospital. Chicago police officers responded to the 8500 block of South Muskegon Avenue around 6:51 a.m., where they found the child unresponsive inside the residence.
The girl, identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as Za’Niya Evans, was rushed to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to fox32chicago.com. Detectives are now conducting a death investigation into how the toddler died.
Cause of Death Still Undetermined
Investigators have not yet determined Za’Niya’s cause and manner of death, the station’s report states. Police also did not say whether foul play is suspected in her death, leaving key questions about what happened inside the South Muskegon Avenue home unanswered for now.
WGN-TV similarly reported that the infant was found dead inside the South Side home Friday morning, and that no further information was immediately available from Chicago police. The lack of detail underscores how early the investigation remains, with no cause, manner, or circumstances yet confirmed publicly.
Conflicting Online Record Not Confirmed
A separate online database, the Gun Violence Archive, lists Za’Niya Evans as a victim in an incident it categorizes as a fatal shooting involving one gun. That entry conflicts with the news reporting, which says her cause and manner of death had not yet been determined, and it has not been independently verified against an official police or medical examiner record.
No additional details about what led to the 1-year-old being found unresponsive have been released. Detectives’ death investigation remains active as the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office works to determine how the toddler died.
