{"id":498329,"date":"2026-01-07T06:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/498329\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:53:17","slug":"chicago-crime-elderly-man-found-shot-to-death-inside-sw-side-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/498329\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago crime: Elderly man found shot to death inside SW Side home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A 78-year-old man was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found shot to death<\/a> inside a home on the city\u2019s Southwest Side on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officers responded to the scene in the 4500 block of S. Lamon Avenue in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/le-claire-courts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Claire Courts<\/a> around 8 p.m., according to the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The victim was found with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">No one is in custody in connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Area detectives are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/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\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/le-claire-courts\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Claire Courts<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; A 78-year-old man was found shot to death inside a home on the city\u2019s Southwest Side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":498330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,223884,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-498329","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-le-claire-courts","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115852502967157537","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498329","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=498329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}