Pregnant Chicago woman fatally shot, body left roadside covered in cash, after allegedly trying to rob drug dealers

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On Monday, a 21-year-old pregnant Chicago woman, Genesis Escobar, was gunned down during an alleged botched robbery where Escobar and her boyfriend attempted to rob a group of drug dealers, who then opened fire on the pair.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Escobar, who was 7 months pregnant, allegedly met the drug dealers and got in their car to complete a “drug transaction” but then her boyfriend flanked the vehicle in an attempt to rob the crew, prompting the drug dealers to shoot Escobar multiple times before she “tumbled out of the car.”

The shooting occurred around 1 pm on Chicago’s Northwest Side in the neighborhood of Belmont Cragin.

The New York Post reports that after Escobar was shot, the drug dealers “threw her body into the street” and “dumped a pile of cash” on top of her, which her boyfriend then grabbed.

Escobar’s boyfriend, after he retrieved cash from on top of her body, fled as she was bleeding out.

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