A three-hour SWAT standoff on Chicago’s Northwest Side ended peacefully Sunday after police responded to reports of a man armed with a machete and behaving erratically in Forest Glen.
The incident began around 10:22 a.m. when police began receiving 911 calls about a man acting strangely in the 7100 block of North Sioux Avenue. Some witnesses saw the man outside with a towel wrapped around his head and a machete in his hands. They said he appeared to be under the influence of something and was acting aggressively.
According to police radio traffic and accounts from the scene, some callers said the man had been running up behind people on the block and making threats, while another witness saw him stab at a fence. Officers had received earlier calls about the same man earlier in the day.
Before officers arrived, the 48-year-old man went inside a residence on the block. When officers reached the scene, he briefly came back outside, yelled at the police to get off his property, and then went back into the house. Police then established a perimeter and called in SWAT officers to resolve the situation.
The standoff ended peacefully early Sunday afternoon, and the man was taken to a hospital for a mental evaluation, according to an officer at the scene.
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