Woman With Cancer Beat to Death in Zion

By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO) Police in north suburban Zion are searing for the person responsible for beating a cancer patient to death.

Police say 46-year-old Shannon Vincell, of Springfield, Mo., was approached by someone who struck her in the head with an unknown object just before 10 p.m.  Monday near 27th Street and Gabriel Ave. in Zion. Vincell was attacked while sitting outside a hotel owned by the Cancer Treatment Center of America.

Officers arrived on the scene to find her with severe head trauma. She was taken to Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, where she died Tuesday night.

Police do not have anyone in custody and say they do not have a detailed description of the attacker.

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