{"id":805463,"date":"2026-05-18T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/805463\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:40:21","slug":"man-shot-in-face-while-driving-in-chicago-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/805463\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot in face while driving in Chicago, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A man is in critical condition after being shot in the face while driving late Sunday night on the city&#8217;s Southwest Side, according to police.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The shooting happened around 10:20 p.m. in the 7900 block of South Western Avenue in the Wrightwood neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said a 26-year-old man was driving southbound in a gray SUV when he heard gunshots and felt pain. He suffered a wound to the face and was taken to Christ Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It remains unclear what led up to the shooting and whether the victim was targeted.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No arrests have been announced. Area One detectives are investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story came from the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/wrightwood\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wrightwood<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; A man is in critical condition after being shot in the face while driving late Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":805464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,50,68,21798],"class_list":["post-805463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-cook-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-news","tag-us","tag-wrightwood"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116596574073821083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805463","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=805463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}