{"id":480721,"date":"2025-12-30T19:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480721\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:38:09","slug":"girl-accidentally-shot-in-head-on-chicagos-south-side-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480721\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl accidentally shot in head on Chicago&#8217;s South Side: police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A teenage girl was accidentally shot near the eye Tuesday morning in Chicago&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland<\/a> neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The teen was inside a building around 3 a.m. when she was shot near her right eye in the 4100 block of South Ellis Avenue, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The girl, who was around 15 years old, was taken to Comer Children&#8217;s Hospital where she was listed in fair condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police said preliminary investigation indicated the shooting happened due to an &#8220;accidental discharge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">A gun was recovered from the scene. Area One detectives are investigating.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Police have not said what caused the gun to go off or whether any charges are pending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; A teenage girl was accidentally shot near the eye Tuesday morning in Chicago&#8217;s Oakland neighborhood. What&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":445444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,50,24197,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-480721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-oakland","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115810212614506235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480721","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=480721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}