A Kane County Jail inmate in the state of Illinois who was seeking medical treatment has taken a hospital employee hostage after getting a hold of correctional officer’s gun.
The incident started about 12:30pm local time Saturday afternoon at the Delnor Hospital in west suburban Geneva. At the hospital, the inmate apparently managed to overpower the officer and seized his weapon.
The prisoner, whose name has not been released, then took a female member of the medical staff hostage inside the hospital’s emergency room area, Kane County sheriff’s office spokesman Lt. Pat Gengler said.
The inmate was still holding that gun on a female hospital employee and keeping her hostage a little before 4pm, the Chicago Tribune notes.
SWAT team and crisis negotiators are on the scene, Gengler said, adding, that the situation is contained to a single room in the emergency area of the hospital.
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