Update: 4:08 p.m.
The McHenry County Sheriff’s Department says that Jacob Keltner, a 13-year veteran deputy with the department, was killed in the hotel incident in Rockford.
We regret to inform you that shortly after 3:30p.m. today Deputy Jacob Keltner has passed away.
Deputy Keltner was shot earlier this morning while attempting to serve an arrest warrant with the U.S. Marshalls Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force. pic.twitter.com/ef5mjsQeZ4
— McHenry Co. Sheriff (@McHenrySheriff) March 7, 2019
Update: 1:12 p.m.
The suspect, Floyd Brown, is barricaded in a standoff with law enforcement on I-55.
Authorities say the McHenry County Sheriff’s Department deputy who was shot in the hotel incident is in critical condition. Another woman was shot, but not with a potentially deadly injury.
Brown was wanted on warrants from three counties and a state corrections warrant.
Watch a news conference on the shooting and suspect search.
Update: 12:17 p.m.
UPDATE: Suspect in Rockford hotel shooting currently involved in stand-off with state police; I-55 shutdown https://t.co/MoNdQ7Sw64
— NBC Chicago (@nbcchicago) March 7, 2019
Original story
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) – Police said a gunman fled a hotel less than 20 minutes from the Wisconsin border Thursday after shooting an officer who was part of a fugitive task force trying to serve an arrest warrant.
Rockford police Lt. Andre Brass said investigators believe the suspect, 39-year-old Floyd E. Brown, is still armed and fled the hotel in a vehicle. Authorities did not immediately know the condition of the officer who was shot.
PHOTO RELEASED of Rockford shooting suspect #news3now https://t.co/0d4nFoBH1p pic.twitter.com/5ggyZepZeu
— News 3 Now / Channel 3000 (@WISCTV_News3) March 7, 2019
“Mr. Brown is considered armed and dangerous,” Brass said. “Please do not approach.”
Brass said Brown was wanted on several warrants when the task force went to an Extended Stay America hotel in Rockford, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) northwest of Chicago.
Brass didn’t know what specific crimes the warrants alleged but said Brown was from the Springfield area, in central Illinois.
Police believe Brown had left the Rockford area by early Thursday afternoon. Investigators said he fled it a light blue or silver Mercury Grand Marquis.
“We just want to end this incident peacefully with his surrender,” Brass said. “We have prayers for the officer that was hit and we have prayers for the officers that are trying to locate the suspect.”
The officer’s name hasn’t been released, but he was assigned to a Great Lakes regional fugitive task force, U.S. Marshals Service spokeswoman Belkis Cantor Sandoval said.
Brown was reportedly driving a light blue or silver Mercury Grand Marquis. Authorities said he may have a license plate of BF13112 or a temporary “plate” of 4850256.
Watch coverage below, courtesy of WLS-TV in Chicago.
