29-year-old woman dead in East St. Louis shooting

Police on Thursday night were investigating a shooting death in East St. Louis.

East St. Louis Police and Illinois State Police were called to a home in the 600 block of North Ninth Street at 1:52 p.m. Thursday to investigate the death of a woman.

Police confirmed they were investigating the death as a homicide, and crime-scene investigators were processing the scene Thursday night.

St. Clair County Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. identified the victim as 29-year-old Catherine Jackson. She was pronounced dead at 4:15 p.m. at the North Ninth Street home, Dye said.

Jackson’s preliminary cause of death was from multiple gunshots.

This story was originally published January 11, 2018 at 6:57 PM with the headline "29-year-old woman dead in East St. Louis shooting."