LORAIN, Ohio — Loved ones and neighbors of a Lorain woman fatally shot Sunday morning are grappling with the loss and unanswered questions surrounding her death.

Police responded shortly before 7 a.m. Sunday for reports of an unresponsive woman at an apartment on W. 24th Street in Lorain. Officers found a 45-year-old woman dead from an apparent gunshot wound.

The victim’s 16-year-old son was not at the scene when police arrived. He was found several hours later and arrested for murder in his mother’s death.

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