CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Police are still investigating an incident on the West Side last week in which a man was found dead after a standoff.
Larry Snelling, Chicago police chief of the Bureau of Counterterrorism, said it was a confusing and dangerous situation on Friday when a man, armed with a flame-thrower, other weapons and a Nazi flag was found dead after an all-day standoff near Chicago and Pulaski.
“The location was very chaotic. There were a lot of things in there, and the building more than likely has to be demolished,” Snelling said.
The man is believed to have been a squatter in the building, and there had been reports for months of the man using his flame-thrower and playing loud, profane and threatening recordings.
“[It] took awhile for us to decide to go in because, if you saw the apparatus that he had built on top of the building, there was no reason for us not to believe that he had set something up inside of that building…For the safety of everyone, the SWAT team did an excellent job of deescalating, the officers, who were on the scene, keeping the citizens away for their safety and the safety of everyone,” Snelling added.
Reports said the man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said no officers fired shots.
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