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Deer Creek/Goodfield Police Chief Bradley Potts identified the man as 29-year-old Trent D. Johnson.
Potts said the welfare check came at 6:24, after a report Johnson may have been suicidal after a breakup with his girlfriend.
After the police department heard gunshots from inside the home when they arrived, other units, including the Central Illinois Emergency Response Team, were also dispatched to the scene.
Negotiators continued their attempts to make contact with Johnson, who did periodically respond, both to the negotiators and to individuals not connected with the authorities.
“Pretty much everybody had gotten their heads together,” he said.
“Some of his neighbors would make contact and then let officers on the scene know, so we knew he was making contact with someone.”
Potts said Johnson also fired between 30 and 40 shots during the negotiation period, most of which were directed at the floor and walls.
“Most of them were discharged within the residence,” Potts said. “I would say probably 10 or so were discharged towards the officers.”
Potts said the shots fired in the direction of officers came after an hour or so of no contact, at which point a robot was sent into the home. Following the shots, officers discharged tear gas into the home.
It was at 4:14 Johnson finally surrendered peacefully.
He was taken to Woodford County Jail following a hospital evaluation, and was charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm, a class X felony that carries a bond of $1 million.
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UPDATE: Police confirm that a standoff in Goodfield has come to an end, with a male suspect taken into custody around 4:10 a.m. Thursday.
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GOODFIELD, Ill. – Police were on scene at the 200 block of Robinson St. in Goodfield starting at approximately 6 p.m. Wednesday evening and were there into the early hours of Thursday morning.
Police were called to a home for a welfare check and heard gunshots when they arrived, according to Deer Creek and Goodfield Police Chief Bradley Potts.
A family was evacuated from a neighboring home around 9:30 and taken to safety outside of the area where police barricaded the street.
Police and SWAT crews remained on the scene attempting to get the individual in question to leave his home to end the hours long standoff.
