A man is in custody after two people were shot at a Walmart in suburban Evergreen Park Wednesday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n
Just before 3 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to a report of an active shooter at the Walmart, located at 2500 West 95th Street in Evergreen Park. Officers cleared the store and located two victims with gunshot wounds, police said. <\/p>\n
Dozens of officers and police vehicles surrounded the retailer in the aftermath of the incident.<\/p>\n
A 23-year-old man was found with multiple gunshots in his leg, and a 70-year-old woman was found with a gunshot in her foot. They were both transported to local hospitals for treatment, police said. <\/p>\n
Authorities said the shooting unfolded when a man exited a vehicle and chased and shot toward the 23-year-old as he was walking into the store.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told police what direction they saw the man flee, police said. Officers found the man during a search of the area and took him into custody on the 9300 block of Country Club Drive. <\/p>\n
Police later found the vehicle the man fled in on the 800 block of West Marquette. <\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the Evergreen Park Police Department at 708–422-2144.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in custody after two people were shot at a Walmart in suburban Evergreen Park Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":306944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,155379,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-306943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-evergreen-park","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115381548071544959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}