Chicago police remained locked in an extended standoff Tuesday morning with a man barricaded inside his Logan Square home, just a few doors down from the residence of former Mayor Lori Lightfoot. The standoff began shortly before noon Monday, drawing a large police response that included SWAT officers and armored vehicles to the Northwest Side neighborhood.
Police first arrived around 11:45 a.m. Monday to conduct a well-being check on a woman living in the 3400 block of West Wrightwood Avenue. According to dispatch transmissions, a 911 caller reported that the woman’s upstairs neighbor had knocked her down several days earlier, followed her, and spat on her husband.
When patrol officers reached the home shortly before noon, they requested a supervisor after encountering a man who, police said, displayed a rifle from a window and then struggled with officers before retreating inside. Officers later reported that the man had thrown the rifle out a window but believed he had additional firearms inside. The situation continued to escalate. At one point, the man sprayed a fire extinguisher from a window, according to police transmissions.
The man also called 911 himself, telling dispatchers he was afraid because police had barricaded him inside his home, the transmissions showed.
As of Tuesday morning, SWAT officers were still working to resolve the situation. The standoff snarled traffic in the area and prompted the CTA to reroute #82 Kimball-Homan buses.
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