{"id":801153,"date":"2026-05-16T18:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801153\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:40:15","slug":"rogers-park-man-charged-in-fatal-edgewater-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801153\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Park man charged in fatal Edgewater shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man faces murder and gun charges in connection with a fatal early-morning Edgewater shooting earlier this week, police announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ammar Houssamo, 53, was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, police announced. He was arrested in Evanston shortly after shots rang out in the 1400 block of West Thome around 7:20 a.m. Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Houssamo, of Rogers Park, allegedly <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2026\/05\/15\/dog-walker-fatally-shot-trying-fleeing-gunman-who-then-turned-gun-on-self-in-edgewater-police\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shot a man who was walking his dog<\/a> before turning the gun on himself, according to Chicago police. The man was pronounced dead at Presence St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.<\/p>\n<p>Houssamo was taken to the same hospital, where he was in critical condition and arrested by Chicago police later Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man faces murder and gun charges in connection with a fatal early-morning Edgewater shooting earlier this week,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":801154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-801153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116585721150103912","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801153","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=801153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}