Man barricades himself in standoff in Chicago's McKinley Park neighborhood
A man barricaded himself in a room and held police in a standoff Thursday evening in Chicago's McKinley Park neighborhood.
At 7:11 p.m., police were called to the 2300 block of West Pershing Road, near Western Avenue and Boulevard, for a domestic disturbance. A 70-year-old woman and gotten into a quarrel with a man she knew — though their relationship was unspecified — and the man armed himself with a sharp object, police said.
Officers were able to get the woman out of the building. The man barricaded himself inside a room, police said.
A SWAT team was called to the scene, and remained active hours later.
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