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DePue man denied bail after police gunfire kills boy during hostage standoff · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Depuh Man denied bail after police gunfire kills boy during
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  hostage standoff. Written by Bill Frescos and Tom Collins, This
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  article is being read by an automated voice brought to
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  you by Everlett. Anthony. Daniel Rodriguez, forty two, of Rural Depeu,
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  was denied pre trial release during his initial court appearance
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  in Bureau County Court on Wednesday afternoon, following a hostage
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  situation on Sunday May tenth that ended in the death
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  of a three year old boy. Rodriguez is charged with
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  three counts of aggravated unlawful restraint, aggravated assault in two
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  counts of domestic battery. He faces up to five years
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  if convicted of aggravated unlawful restraint, the most serious of
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  his counts. Additional charges are still under review, according to
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  Bureau County State's Attorney Dan Anderson. Anderson said, however, that
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  Rodriguez would not be charged with felony mamree. At one time,
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  any violent offense resulting in a death made the suspect
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  eligible for a murder charge. That changed in twenty one.
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  Anderson said. More details about the incident were also revealed
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  during Wednesday's hearing, Prosecutors said a woman called nine hundred
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  and eleven after Rodriguez allegedly threatened her life in the
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  lives of two children. Before officers arrival. Prosecutors said Rodriguez
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  had been wrapping parts of the residence in plastic and
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  spraying bleached throughout the home, including on a person. Prosecutors
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  also said Rodriguez had a large butcher knife and threatened
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  the lives of the adults and children present if they left.
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  According to prosecutors, police established a perimeter around the residence
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  and attempted to get Rodriguez to come out peacefully. Officers
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  attempted de escalation techniques while inside the home. When those failed,
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  they broke down the bedroom door, prosecutors said. Prosecutor said
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  Rodriguez then jumped onto a bed with the knife, which
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  three year old Damien Camacho was on. Rodriguez then grabbed
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  Camacho and held him. An officer who has not been identified,
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  fired three total shots. A non lethal weapon was deployed first,
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  followed by two shots from a firearm. Both Rodriguez and
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  Camacho were struck. Camacho was transported to a hospital in Princeton,
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  where he later died from the gunshot wound. Authorities said
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  when officers attempted to provide aid to the child following
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  the shooting, Rodriguez initially refused to let them take the
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  boy for medical treatment. Public defender Eric May argued Rodriguez
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  should be granted pre trial release and receive mental health
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  treatment because he appeared to be suffering from paranoia and
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  hallucinations during the incident, and a jail setting would not
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  be beneficial in getting him back as a functioning member
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  of so seek I. According to statements made in court
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  by May, Rodriguez allegedly believed he was trying to protect
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  the chill and that God had told him to protect
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  the three until the sun rose. Anderson argued the alleged
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  mental health concerns were part of the reason Rodriguez should
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  remain in jail rather than out on the streets. If
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  mental health issues were the reason he committed these crimes,
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  that only heightens his threat to the public in my opinion,
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  Anderson said. During the hearing, Judge Gino J. Cafferini agreed
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  with Anderson, saying Rodriguez would pose a threat to the
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  community if released. Cafferini also pointed to Rodriguez's criminal history,
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  including an attempted murder conviction in two thousand and three
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  and refusal to comply with police during the incident as
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  a reason he could not be trusted to follow the
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  conditions of a pre trial release. May declined to comment
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  following the hearing. Rodriguez is scheduled to be arraigned at
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  one fifteen pm Friday, May fifteenth, at the Bureau County
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  Courthouse in Princeton.