{"id":85712,"date":"2025-07-23T10:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85712\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:46:09","slug":"east-chicago-police-shooting-leaves-suspect-seriously-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85712\/","title":{"rendered":"East Chicago police shooting leaves suspect seriously wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/928C0518E2BD1851346F8286E0822678.jpg\" alt=\"Person shot by police in East Chicago\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>EAST CHICAGO, Ind.<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/in\/lake-county-in\/east-chicago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Chicago<\/a> police shot and seriously wounded a suspect connected to a <a href=\"\">shooting<\/a> Tuesday afternoon in northwest Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>   East Chicago police shooting <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Just before 6 p.m., East Chicago police officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert near 5001 Melville Avenue. Upon arrival, they found a person who had a graze wound on his leg in the alley between 5000 Melville Avenue and Kennedy Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">While rendering aid to the victim, officers spotted the suspect nearby, chased them on foot and then shot them.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The suspect was taken to St. Catherine Hospital in serious condition. A gun was recovered from the suspect at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The Lake County (Indiana) Sheriff&#8217;s Department is investigating the officer-involved shooting.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Police have not said how many officers fired shots or what led up to the officer-involved shooting.<\/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 East Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/in\/lake-county-in\/east-chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">East Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST CHICAGO, Ind. &#8211; East Chicago police shot and seriously wounded a suspect connected to a shooting Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,6082,33131,5386,1818,1412,57922,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-85712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-east-chicago","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-in","14":"tag-lake-county-in","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114902151143088043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85712","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=85712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}