{"id":786539,"date":"2026-05-10T12:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786539\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:43:13","slug":"elderly-man-shot-on-chicagos-west-side-during-argument-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/786539\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly man shot on Chicago\u2019s West Side during argument, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">An elderly man was shot<\/a> and injured during an argument on Chicago\u2019s West Side early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officers responded around 2:35 a.m. to the 5000 block of W. Erie Street in the Austin neighborhood, according to the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">A 79-year-old man was inside an apartment when he became involved in a verbal altercation with another person, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">An unknown offender knocked on the door. The victim opened the door, heard a gunshot, and realized he had been shot in the finger.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The victim was unsure of the gunman\u2019s identity, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The victim was treated by paramedics and taken to Loretto Hospital in good condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Area detectives are investigating the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/austin\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; An elderly man was shot and injured during an argument on Chicago\u2019s West Side early Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":786540,"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-786539","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\/116550343787691907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786539","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=786539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}