Police were engaged in an hours-long SWAT standoff in Joliet, after a driver fleeing police barricaded themselves inside a nearby home.
Police are engaging in an hours-long SWAT standoff in Joliet , after a driver fleeing police barricaded themselves inside a nearby home.Just before 1 p.m., Will County Sheriff's deputies tried to pull over a car in the 200 block of St.
Jude Avenue when the driver crashed into a fence and ran off. The Will County Sheriff's Office said the driver had multiple felony warrants.The driver, who authorities said is a man in his 40s and is armed, ran into a nearby home two streets over in the 200 block of Romayne Avenue and barricaded himself inside, and remains inside as of 7:30 p.m.As a precaution, nearby Marycrest School, Mary Sears Children's Academy, and the administrative building for Joliet Township High School District 204 were placed on lockdown. The lockdowns have since been lifted. Students at Marycrest were sent home for the day at 3 p.m., and parents of children at Mary Sears were allowed to pick up their kids while the standoff was ongoing.Will Count sheriffs said the conversation is ongoing between the man, crisis negotiators, and the man's family members. Police also asked people to avoid the area around Joyce Road between Jefferson Street and McDonough Street.
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