Suspect In Custody After Standoff Following Crash, Scuffle With State Trooper On Tri-State
Updated 11/13/2015 - 1:05 p.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Charges were pending Friday afternoon against a 28-year-old Chicago man who crashed his SUV on the Tri-State Tollway near Melrose Park, then allegedly fought with his wife and a police officer in rush hour traffic, before fleeing the scene and holing up in an elderly woman's home a few blocks away.
When an Illinois State Trooper pulled up to the scene of the crash in the southbound lanes of Interstate 294 near Grand Avenue at 7:30 a.m., a man was involved in a domestic altercation with his wife on the shoulder, according to Maj. Luis Gutierrez,
"The driver attacked our trooper, and fled the scene, crossing all northbound and southbound lanes," he said.
A witness said the cars were swerving to avoid the driver as he ran into traffic.
"What struck me was not just that they were engaged in a physical brawl, but right at the moment that I passed, the driver was either resisting arrest, or it just kind of got ugly. So he ran away, and he actually ran into the traffic of the highway," Bernardo Gomez said.
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The suspect ran into an elderly woman's home on the 3100 block of Rhodes Street in unincorporated Leyden Township, not far from the Tri-State, and took the 91-year-old woman hostage.
"He barricaded himself with one elderly female in the residence," Gutierrez said.
Police negotiated with the man, who was armed with a knife, and he came out of the home. Officers subdued him with a stun gun and arrested him.
His wife and four children, who were in the SUV, were taken to the hospital for treatment, as were his hostage, and the trooper he attacked. None of them were seriously hurt.
