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Downtown Ottawa briefly told to shelter-in-place Sunday as police arrest shooting suspect · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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Downtown Ottawa briefly told the shelter in place Sunday as police arrest
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shooting suspect. Written by Michael Urbanek. This article is being
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read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlet. Downtown Ottawa
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was briefly put under a shelter-in-place order Sunday while police arrested a
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suspect in a La Salle County shooting investigation.
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Police said they arrested the suspect in an apartment building in the
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200 block of West Washington Street.
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The suspect was taken into custody without incident and turned over to
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the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office, police said. The sheriff’s office is
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leading the investigation, and police directed questions to that agency.
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Ottawa police said they received a notification from the sheriff’s office at
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about 12:13 p.m. That the suspect and the suspect’s vehicle might be
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headed to Ottawa. Flock automated license plate reader cameras showed the vehicle
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traveling north toward Ottawa about 20 minutes before that notification, according to
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the release.
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Officers found the vehicle and the suspect at the West Washington Street
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apartment building at 12:22 p.m, police said.
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Ottawa Central Dispatch sent a shelter-in-place notification while officers tried to take
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the suspect into custody, a step police described as taken out of
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an abundance of caution. The order was lifted a short time later,
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police said.