Police say pregnant woman shot and killed in Belmont Cragin while trying to rob someone

A pregnant woman was killed in an exchange of gunfire while trying to rob someone in Belmont Cragin on the Northwest Side Monday, police said.

Genesis Escobar, 21, entered a vehicle about 1 p.m. in the 5200 block of West Montana Street intending to commit a robbery, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Gunfire was exchanged between people inside the vehicle and someone outside, police said. Escobar was shot in the shoulder, back and hand.

She was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

Friends told reporters at the scene that she was seven months pregnant and the baby did not survive.

No one was in custody.