Update: LaSalle County Sheriffs says the suspect was 55-year old Jeffery L. Plique. Sheriff’s say that house that Plique drove to was his. He’ll have a bond hearing Monday.
The standoff between a suspect and numerus police departments in Sheridan came to a peaceful end. LaSalle County Sheriffs were called to the Sheridan Food Mart just before eight Saturday morning after multiple shots were fired. A man in the store was shot in the leg and taken to the hospital. The armed suspect allegedly drove away on a tractor before driving to a house on Church Street and barricading himself inside. The suspect’s father was also in the barricaded house but he eventually got out. After about ten hours, according to the police scanner a SWAT Team shot tear gas into the house which got the suspect to throw out a long rifle and a pistol out of different windows. The suspect was eventually taken into custody about a half an hour later. He is in the custody of the LaSalle County Jail but there have been no formal charges announced. You can find a link to our first story about the incident by clicking here.
A SWAT Team gets ready. The team would later get the suspect out of the house by using tear gas according to the police scanner.
Some of the last vehicles to leave the scene after the suspect was arrested and taken to the county jail.