{"id":29880,"date":"2024-07-19T21:18:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T02:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=29880"},"modified":"2024-07-19T21:18:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T02:18:35","slug":"postal-worker-fatally-shot-in-front-of-chicago-residence-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=29880","title":{"rendered":"Postal worker fatally shot in front of Chicago residence: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">A postal worker was fatally shot in front of a residence in Chicago on Friday, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The gunman approached the victim and fired multiple times before fleeing in a vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The shooting occurred on the city&#8217;s South Side in the West Pullman neighborhood around 11:38 a.m. CT, according to police.<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/100-shot-19-fatally-chicago-long-fourth-july\/story?id=111748574\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The 48-year-old victim sustained &#8220;multiple gunshot wounds&#8221; and was transported to an area hospital, where she died, police said. Her name has not been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">No one is in custody in connection with the shooting, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The U.S. Postal Inspection Service Chicago Division is offering a reward up to $250,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect or suspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/chicago-postal-worker-shooting\/story?id=112110564\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A postal worker was fatally shot in front of a residence in Chicago on Friday, officials said. The gunman approached the victim and fired multiple times before fleeing in a vehicle, police said. The shooting occurred on the city&#8217;s South Side in the West Pullman neighborhood around 11:38 a.m. CT, according to police. The 48-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1726,1237,6888],"class_list":["post-29880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-officers","tag-police","tag-pursuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29882,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29880\/revisions\/29882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}