Armed Inmate Killed, Hostage Rescued During Illinois Hospital Lockdown

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — Officers fatally shot an armed jail inmate who took two nurses hostage at a hospital in northern Illinois on Saturday, several hours after the inmate stole a gun from the correction's officer guarding him, authorities said. A SWAT team quickly moved in to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva after negotiations broke down with the inmate Saturday afternoon, Kane County Sheriff's Off6ice spokesman Patrick Gengler said. Gengler said one officer shot and killed the inmate, whom he identified as 21-year-old Tywon Salters. The inmate initially took one female nurse hostage, but she was released at some point during the standoff. Salters then took another female nurse hostage, and she was with him when he was shot around 5 p.m., Gengler said. The second nurse was "extremely emotional and upset" following the shooting, but appeared to be physically OK, Gengler said. She was quickly taken to another room in the hospital. The standoff began around 12:30 p.m., when the inmate snatched a gun from a correctional officer at the hospital about 40 miles west of Chicago. The weapon was recovered at the scene. Salters, who was being held on charges related to a stolen vehicle, had been in the Kane County Jail's custody since April 11, and in the hospital since Monday, Gengler said. Gengler said he couldn't release details about why Salter was hospitalized, citing federal privacy laws. The standoff had been contained to one section of the&nbs...
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