NAPERVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A physician says an Amtrak conductor who was shot while standing on the platform of a suburban Chicago train station faces multiple surgeries and months in the hospital before being released.
Dr. David Piazza, Edward Hospital’s medical director of trauma surgery, tells the Naperville Sun that 45-year-old Michael Case’s recovery is expected to last six to nine months.
The bullet went through the Homewood resident’s abdomen. Piazza says it penetrated his intestine, including a portion below his stomach. Part of Case’s pancreas also was damaged, and his colon has been removed.
Seventy-nine-year-old Edward Klein of Wisconsin has been charged with attempted murder in the May 16 shooting in Naperville. He’s being held at the DuPage County jail and will undergo a psychiatric evaluation.
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