Person Climbs On Roof, Shows Fake Gun In Police Standoff, Deputy Chief Says

WILL COUNTY, IL — Police were involved in a standoff Sunday with a person who displayed a toy rifle before fleeing to the roof of his Frankfort Square home, according to the Will County Sheriff’s Office.

The person was involved in a property damage complaint, Deputy Chief Daniel Jungles said in an email. Deputies arrived around 4 p.m., and he emerged from his residence in the 20200 block of Lismore Circle with an AR-15-style rifle that authorities quickly identified as a toy, according to Jungles.

When deputies tried to take him into custody, he went back inside and climbed through a window onto his roof, Jungles said.

Crisis negotiators coaxed him down and he was then taken into custody, according to Jungles.