Bolingbrook police officer shot, suspect arrested after barricading in residence
BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (CBS) -- A Bolingbrook police officer was hospitalized Sunday evening after being shot by a suspect in a business theft.
According to police, around 6:15 p.m., officers responded to a theft complaint at a business in the 100 block of South Bolingbrook Drive.
The suspect fled the scene before the officers arrived, but around 7:45 p.m., officers located the suspect.
When an officer made contact, the offender shot the officer, police said.
The officer was hospitalized, and police were surrounding a residence where the suspect was barricaded Sunday night, according to police. His condition had stabilized. Bolingbrook police said the officer is 38 years old and has been with the department for three years.
"It's a little heartbreaking knowing something like this could happen so locally and so close by," one neighbor told CBS 2.
"It's just a lot. I think the whole community is going through it. They evacuated the whole block, so people aren't even in their homes right now."
SWAT officers were on the scene. Illinois State Police were assisted with the investigation and tactical operations, according to a release.
Officers arrested the suspect around 1 a.m.
