Police said Kathryn Pawlak, 48, was found fatally wounded on a parking lot at 3910 S. University shortly before midnight Monday. She was described as homeless and died of gunshot wounds about four hours later.

Michael DeCarlo, 50, who works at the Vault Studios, a tattoo business at that address, was charged with second-degree murder in the death, but no other details were available. Pawlak is the city’s 40th homicide of the year.

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