{"id":708158,"date":"2026-04-06T06:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/708158\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:42:12","slug":"chicago-man-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-hit-and-run-on-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/708158\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago man charged with attempted murder after hit-and-run on West Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bc6a7023-2d3b-4f2f-a14c-57b96cabac8f.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Leo Cowan | Chicago police <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A Chicago man is facing felony charges after allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/driver-custody-after-hitting-pedestrian-chicago-sidewalk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hitting a pedestrian with his vehicle<\/a> and fleeing the scene on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/austin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">city\u2019s West Side.<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Leo Cowan, 57, was arrested Thursday around 9:12 p.m. in the 5200 block of West Lake Street. Police said Cowan was identified as the driver who, minutes earlier, struck a 44-year-old woman in the same area, leaving her with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Authorities said Cowan fled on foot after the crash but was located and taken into custody within minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">He has been charged with attempted first-degree murder, along with misdemeanor counts of operating an uninsured motor vehicle causing bodily harm and driving with an expired license.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Cowan was scheduled to attend a detention hearing Sunday.<\/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 Deparment.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Leo Cowan | Chicago police CHICAGO &#8211; A Chicago man is facing felony charges after allegedly hitting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":708159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[359,960,5404,6082,5386,1818,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-708158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-cook-county","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116356408038537830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708158","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=708158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}