{"id":720223,"date":"2021-09-05T13:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T17:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=720223"},"modified":"2021-09-05T13:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T17:36:01","slug":"chicago-father-fatally-shot-while-taking-daughter-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-father-fatally-shot-while-taking-daughter-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago father fatally shot while taking daughter to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-father-fatally-shot-while-taking-daughter-to-school%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=720223&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2510332\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2510332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicago Police officers monitor an area outside of the Chicago Mercy Hospital. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:24 AM PT \u2013 Sunday, September 5, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A father in Chicago was fatally shot in the middle of traffic while taking his 7-year-old daughter to school. The Chicago family is mourning the loss of their loved one after a gunman unexpectedly opened fire on a man Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police released <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/chicago-shooting-humboldt-park-breaking-news-police\/10994412\/\">surveillance photos<\/a> from the shooting last week of the man allegedly responsible for the death of 33-year-old Travell Miller. Miller was reportedly driving his daughter to school when the suspect suddenly approached his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was sitting at the light and five cars behind him, guy gets out of a car, walked up to his car, exchanged brief words with him and then starts firing,\u201d said Miller\u2019s father, Joseph Gilmore.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old father of two was later pronounced dead at the hospital. Miller shielded his daughter during the shooting, where he was shot four times and his daughter was left uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe doctor was explaining by the way the entry of the bullets that it appeared when the assailant began to shoot at him, he leaned over to protect her to keep her from being shot,\u201d said Gilmore.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A family is raising is money to bury Travell Miller-Gilmore, a dad shot and killed while taking his 7-year-old daughter to school. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h4kgp9HGGI\">https:\/\/t.co\/h4kgp9HGGI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DuLI1s7Iho\">pic.twitter.com\/DuLI1s7Iho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Block Club Chicago (@BlockClubCHI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlockClubCHI\/status\/1433527715697659908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The family, now traumatized, is pleading with the suspect and any witnesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you live with yourself knowing a 7-year-old will be traumatized for the rest of her life because her father was killed in front of her and he died saving her from bullets? And all she was trying to do was go to school,\u201d said Tunesia Gilmore, the victim\u2019s stepmother.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Police are continuing to search for the suspect who is believed to be between 18- and 20-years old, and was said to be driving a two-door silver Pontiac Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/taliban-violently-breaks-up-afghan-womens-protest\/\">Taliban Violently Breaks Up Afghan Women\u2019s Protest<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Police officers monitor an area outside of the Chicago Mercy Hospital. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI\/AFP via Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 10:24 AM PT \u2013 Sunday, September 5, 2021 A father in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}