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Man holds several people hostage in garage with handgunGranite City IL

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Near Spruce St, Granite City, IL 62040

A man is holding 7 to 8 people hostage in a garage near Spruce St. He is armed with a handgun and is threatening to cause harm or provoke a police response. A woman is reportedly being held at gunpoint. The situation is tense and emergency services have been notified.

Audio|Source: Granite, Pontoon, Madison (City), Mitchell, Long Lake
02:34
Transcript:
00:00
2138 state for a weapon call.
00:04
Caller, guys, and there's a mail with 32[1] in a garage, holding 7 to 8 people, toxic, talking suicide by cops.
00:12
45 round 70 dragging clear 5 to shamed there's no surface out here we're being around the state 7-7 from the 8,000 lodge
00:25
7 for all being around I'll come back to this later all the south end cars are clearing up in that way next to see north
00:39
He is responding to the State Street. Our caller is going to be a quick trip south. He advised that he just got his family out of the front door of the residence.
00:46
All the hostages are supposed to be in the garage.
00:48
Any uniform suspect?
00:55
They advise the suspect was going to be (name withheld).
00:58
And he's supposed to have an unknown type of firearm. But the caller note that it's real because he's going to come back vest.
01:05
Yeah.
01:07
9245, which is fine.
01:09
Ponteen, you copy and grant his calls.
01:13
Calls to check.
01:16
I'm going to move with my radio.
01:18
We have any issues in here.
01:20
Six, I'll be enough to Q2-7.
01:23
6-3, disregard that I'm out of Q2-7 now.
01:26
That's right, I'm listening.
01:29
45, this is our pinning in front of 21-34 Spain.
01:37
I think they're down with (name withheld) Jr.
01:44
He told to be Hudson.
01:51
5274
01:55
You want to the phone out there
01:59
Good
02:01
Where do you want to get in 7-8 to respond to if we're coming up for Route 3
02:06
I don't know if you're on Monitor and granting traffic they got something going on I'm heading towards a quick trip south
02:13
He got in the area 162 our mayorville just in case
02:18
Ten-four.
02:22
I hear a screamer for coming from over there.
02:25
Callers saying that it's (name withheld), he's allegedly got a handgun to a female's head underneath the stairs in the garage.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
32: Gun / armed subject

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Near Spruce St, Granite City, IL 62040

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