On Sunday, about 1:40 a.m., officers responded to a reported shooting in the 600 block of Bragg Street and found a woman with a gunshot wound.
She was taken to a hospital where she died from her injuries.
Police said the suspect, Stanley Lemont Johnson, 44, was last seen leaving the scene on foot heading eastbound on Bragg Street.
Johnson is described as a Black man standing 5'6" and weighing 130 pounds. He is known to go by the alias "Tadpole."
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