{"id":492006,"date":"2026-01-04T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492006\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:22:09","slug":"south-shore-chicago-shooting-kills-marcos-almeida-in-6700-block-of-south-jeffery-boulevard-marks-1st-known-homicide-of-2026-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/492006\/","title":{"rendered":"South Shore, Chicago shooting kills Marcos Almeida in 6700-block of South Jeffery Boulevard, marks 1st known homicide of 2026: PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A man was found shot to death inside a South Side home on Saturday morning, Chicago police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting appears to mark Chicago&#8217;s first known homicide of 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A 51-year-old man was found unresponsive at the home in the South Shore neighborhood&#8217;s 6700-block of South Jeffery Boulevard just before 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim, shot in the chest, head and back, was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Cook County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office identified him as Marcos Almeida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">What led up to the shooting was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There is no one in custody, and Area One detectives are conducting a homicide investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Further information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \">INTERACTIVE SAFETY TRACKER  <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/feature\/tracking-crime-and-safety-in-your-neighborhood\/12385906\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Track crime and safety in your neighborhood<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A man was found shot to death inside a South Side home on Saturday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":492007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[221716,960,5463,5461,5462,5464,5457,5460,4222,5386,1818,5458,5459,29865,43777,43778,43773],"class_list":{"0":"post-492006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-221716","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-breaking-news","11":"tag-chicago-crime","12":"tag-chicago-news","13":"tag-chicago-police","14":"tag-chicago-shooting","15":"tag-chicago-violence","16":"tag-gun-violence","17":"tag-il","18":"tag-illinois","19":"tag-shooting-chicago","20":"tag-shooting-in-chicago","21":"tag-shots-fired","22":"tag-south-shore","23":"tag-south-shore-chicago","24":"tag-south-shore-shooting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115837517808413209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492006","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=492006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}