{"id":992188,"date":"2026-08-10T02:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/992188\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T02:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T02:33:17","slug":"27-year-old-man-from-lake-county-dies-after-multiple-gunmen-open-fire-at-bus-stop-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/992188\/","title":{"rendered":"27-year-old man from Lake County dies after multiple gunmen open fire at bus stop in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/chi-bus.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" height=\"531\" width=\"869\" data-lazy- data-lazy- class=\"wp-image-116986 sp-no-webp\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/chi-bus.jpg\"\/> <\/a>A man from North Chicago in his 20s was fatally shot and a woman in her 50s was injured after they were shot near a bus stop in the 3400 block of West 16th Street in Chicago\u2019s North Lawndale neighborhood on July 31. | Photo: Google Street View<\/p>\n<p>A Lake County man died after multiple gunmen opened fire on him at a bus stop in Chicago, leaving him shot multiple times and a woman also wounded, police officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Police Department said the incident happened around 12:38 p.m. on July 31 in the 3400 block of West 16th Street in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>A male victim was standing near the street when he was approached by two unknown vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The Cook County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office identified the victim earlier this week as Prentiss Smith, 27, of North Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple offenders from within the vehicles produced firearms and fired shots at Smith, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith suffered multiple shots to his body and was transported by the Chicago Fire Department to Mt. Sinai Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The medical examiner\u2019s office said that Smith later died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy performed showed Smith suffered multiple gunshot wounds and his death was ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a 56-year-old woman standing near the immediate area was also struck by gunfire from the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>She suffered two gunshot wounds to the back and was transported to Mt. Sinai Hospital in fair condition.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene showed a CTA bus stop with yellow and red crime scene tape around it and the roadway on the corner of 16th Street and Homan Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Several windows of the bus stop shelter were shattered from the gunfire and personal belongings were strewn around the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Police Department Area Four detectives are investigating the case and no arrests have been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from North Chicago in his 20s was fatally shot and a woman in her 50s was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":992189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,4221,5386,1818,106782,397813,101],"class_list":["post-992188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-homicide","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-north-chicago","tag-person-shot","tag-shooting"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117068877217349854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992188","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=992188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/992189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}