{"id":393074,"date":"2025-11-20T21:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393074\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:07:23","slug":"cpd-officer-accidentally-shoots-himself-in-the-groin-outside-south-chicago-district-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/393074\/","title":{"rendered":"CPD officer accidentally shoots himself in the groin outside South Chicago District police station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chicago police officer is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the groin Wednesday night outside the South Chicago District station.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the 22-year-old officer was off duty and walking through the parking lot of the station when when gun in his waistband discharged, striking him in the groin.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not specify if the officer was on his way to work or leaving his shift at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chicago police officer is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the groin Wednesday night outside the South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":393075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-393074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115584070074720964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393074","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=393074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}