{"id":3514,"date":"2026-01-05T13:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:31:12","slug":"cta-bus-driver-helps-dying-man-after-back-of-the-yards-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=3514","title":{"rendered":"CTA bus driver helps dying man after Back of the Yards shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 43-year-old man who was shot Sunday night boarded a CTA bus and its driver sped from the scene, called 911 and waited with him until help arrived in the Back of the Yards.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, who later died at a hospital, was at a bus stop at 55th and Halsted streets about 9:50 p.m. when a gunman walked up to him and shot him in the abdomen, according to a Chicago police report.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old was able to board the bus, where he collapsed and its driver sped away south to 59th and Halsted streets where she called 911, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>A responding ambulance took the victim to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where the unidentified man was pronounced dead at 10:21 p.m., according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The bus driver, who saw the shooter run in front of her bus before possibly fleeing in a white SUV, the report said. <\/p>\n<p>No one was in custody. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2026\/01\/05\/bus-driver-helps-dying-man-after-back-of-the-yards-shooting\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 43-year-old man who was shot Sunday night boarded a CTA bus and its driver sped from the scene, called 911 and waited with him until help arrived in the Back of the Yards. The victim, who later died at a hospital, was at a bus stop at 55th and Halsted streets about 9:50 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3514","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}