{"id":547482,"date":"2026-01-27T19:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/547482\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T19:34:14","slug":"concealed-carry-license-holder-opens-fire-during-attempted-armed-robbery-in-belmont-cragin-cpd-says-2-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/547482\/","title":{"rendered":"Concealed carry license holder opens fire during attempted armed robbery in Belmont Cragin, CPD says; 2 in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Concealed Carry License holder fired shots at two men who tried to rob him at gunpoint early Tuesday morning in Chicago&#8217;s Belmont Cragin neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chicago police said a 39-year-old man was getting out of his car in the 5200 block of West Montana Street when two men walked up with a gun and demanded his belongings. Police said the victim, who has a valid CCL, fired multiple shots at the men. One was struck multiple times in the legs, CPD said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded and took the two men into custody.\u00a0 A 23-year-old suspect was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in good condition.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by Area Five detectives is ongoing. No further details were released and it was not immediately clear what, if any, charges were pending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Concealed Carry License holder fired shots at two men who tried to rob him at gunpoint early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":547483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[76033,235921,960,5386,1818,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-547482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-attempted-robbery","9":"tag-belmont-cragin","10":"tag-chicago","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-shooting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115968741438794482","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547482","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=547482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}