{"id":488329,"date":"2026-01-03T01:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488329\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:17:11","slug":"suburban-chicago-man-accused-in-attempted-murder-of-gas-station-clerk-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/488329\/","title":{"rendered":"Suburban Chicago man accused in attempted murder of gas station clerk, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>WOODSTOCK<\/strong> &#8211; A suburban Chicago man is charged with attempted murder after a gas station clerk was attacked at a Woodstock convenience store, police said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Austin Silverman, 29, faces one count of attempted murder, a Class 1 felony; one count of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm, a Class 3 felony; and one count of criminal damage to property, a Class A misdemeanor, according to Woodstock police.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/silverman.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Pictured is Austin Silverman, 29. <strong data-v-0dea8073=\"\"> (Woodstock PD\u00a0)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The charges stem from an incident reported at 10:13 a.m. Dec. 31 at a Shell gas station at 110 N. Eastwood Drive. Police said the on-duty clerk was struck multiple times by a suspect inside the store\u2019s retail area.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officers responded to the scene, met with the injured clerk and called emergency medical services to treat the victim, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Investigators collected a statement from the clerk and gathered evidence, including security camera footage. Police later identified Silverman as the suspect and took him into custody, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Silverman was scheduled to appear in court at 1:15 p.m. Friday. Additional details about the case have not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He is being held at the McHenry County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this article was provided by Woodstock Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/mchenry-county\/woodstock\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Woodstock<\/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":"WOODSTOCK &#8211; A suburban Chicago man is charged with attempted murder after a gas station clerk was attacked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":488330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,6082,5386,1818,24563,50,68,186616],"class_list":{"0":"post-488329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-mchenry-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-woodstock"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115828532527429163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488329","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=488329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}