{"id":4817,"date":"2026-05-16T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:07:09","slug":"rogers-park-man-charged-in-fatal-edgewater-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=4817","title":{"rendered":"Rogers Park man charged in fatal Edgewater shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A man faces murder and gun charges in connection with a fatal early-morning Edgewater shooting earlier this week, police announced Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ammar Houssamo, 53, was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, police announced. He was arrested in Evanston shortly after shots rang out in the 1400 block of West Thome around 7:20 a.m. Thursday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Houssamo, of Rogers Park, allegedly <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2026\/05\/15\/dog-walker-fatally-shot-trying-fleeing-gunman-who-then-turned-gun-on-self-in-edgewater-police\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">shot a man who was walking his dog<\/a> before turning the gun on himself, according to Chicago police. The man was pronounced dead at Presence St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.<\/p>\n<p>Houssamo was taken to the same hospital, where he was in critical condition and arrested by Chicago police later Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/crime\/2026\/05\/16\/rogers-park-man-charged-in-fatal-edgewater-shooting\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man faces murder and gun charges in connection with a fatal early-morning Edgewater shooting earlier this week, police announced Saturday. Ammar Houssamo, 53, was charged with first-degree murder and aggravated unlawful possession of a weapon, police announced. He was arrested in Evanston shortly after shots rang out in the 1400 block of West Thome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4817","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\/4817","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=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}