{"id":606264,"date":"2026-04-25T20:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606264\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:57:12","slug":"two-police-officers-shot-at-chicago-hospital-one-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/606264\/","title":{"rendered":"Two police officers shot at Chicago hospital, one in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two police officers were shot in a Chicago hospital on Saturday, with one of them in critical condition.<\/p>\n

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The shots were fired at the Endeavor Health Swedish Hospital on the North Side of Chicago, according to Chicago Police Department audio recordings.<\/p>\n

One of the officers was shot in the head, according to the public recording.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have everybody that I can have coming guys. I have everybody I can coming,\u201d a police dispatcher said in the audio. \u201cWhat I need you guys to do is let me know where you are exactly what you\u2019re doing, so that I can keep track of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AEndeavor Health confirmed that the hospital is on lockdown and said law enforcement was on the scene.WMAQ<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the CPD did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Chicago City Council member Andre Vasquez said in a post on Facebook that the suspect was in custody as of Saturday afternoon. Vasquez cautioned that the area around the hospital was still blocked off.<\/p>\n

\u201cTHIS IS AN ACTIVE SITUATION!\u201d he wrote. \u201cPlease shelter in place if you are in the surrounding area or avoid the area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Endeavor Health confirmed in a statement that the hospital is on lockdown and said law enforcement was on the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two police officers were shot in a Chicago hospital on Saturday, with one of them in critical condition.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-606264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}