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Cook County

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Chicago Metropolitan Area

Homewood-Flossmoor

Illinois

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FLOSSMOOR, IL — One man is in custody after he barricaded himself in a Flossmoor house in a six-and-a-half hour standoff with police Sunday. Flossmoor police and the South Suburban Emergency Response Team surrounded the house after police answered a call around 8:30 a.m. Sunday and <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/6/30/20544297/swat-police-home-flossmoor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">encountered a man with a rifle</a> who shouted threats at them, the Sun-Times reported. The house was at the 2500 block of Caddy Street. The newspaper reported that family members were able to escape, and that the man came in and out of the house several times during the ordeal. Police took him into custody at about 3:15 p.m. Check back for more.

FLOSSMOOR, IL — One man is in custody after he barricaded himself in a Flossmoor house in a six-and-a-half hour standoff with police Sunday.

Flossmoor police and the South Suburban Emergency Response Team surrounded the house after police answered a call around 8:30 a.m. Sunday and <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/6/30/20544297/swat-police-home-flossmoor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">encountered a man with a rifle</a> who shouted threats at them, the Sun-Times reported. The house was at the 2500 block of Caddy Street. The newspaper reported that family members were able to escape, and that the man came in and out of the house several times during the ordeal.

Police took him into custody at about 3:15 p.m. Check back for more.

Standoff Flossmoor Sunday

One man is in custody after he barricaded himself in a Flossmoor house in a six-and-a-half hour standoff with police Sunday.