{"id":98808,"date":"2023-12-24T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T22:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=98808"},"modified":"2023-12-24T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T22:15:50","slug":"98808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=98808","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cwbchicago.com\/2023\/12\/concealed-carry-holder-shoots-robber-during-holdup-chicago.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">19-year-old shot and killed, possibly while trying to rob concealed carry holder in West Town<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chicago police are investigating after a 19-year-old man was shot and killed in West Town on Saturday afternoon. A concealed carry holder told police he shot the man because the man and three other people targeted him in an armed robbery.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred in an alley behind the 1700 block of West Cortez around 4:51 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In a media statement, the Chicago Police Department claimed \u201ca 19-year-old male victim was in the alley when he sustained a gunshot wound to the chest by an unknown offender. The victim was transported to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced. Area Three Detectives are investigating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, officers at the scene said the shooter was a 68-year-old concealed carry holder who remained on the scene. He reportedly told them that he shot the man, who celebrated his 19th birthday last week, in self-defense during an armed robbery. Three other people who participated in the robbery ran from the scene, according to initial information.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred in CPD\u2019s Near West (12th) District, where robbery reports are up 57% compared to last year and up 118% compared to 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19-year-old shot and killed, possibly while trying to rob concealed carry holder in West Town Chicago police are investigating after a 19-year-old man was shot and killed in West Town on Saturday afternoon. A concealed carry holder told police he shot the man because the man and three other people targeted him in an armed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=98808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98809,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98808\/revisions\/98809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}