SWAT

Two teenagers were detained in South Manchester and remain in custody for questioning in connection with the synagogue attack

Police in Colleyville, Texas, said they are “currently conducting SWAT operations” at a synagogue, prompting the evacuation of residents in the area on Saturday afternoon.

SWAT has responded to a man barricaded inside an apartment in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood Thursday, according to authorities.

A SWAT team responded after two people were shot Friday morning in Austin on the West Side.

A SWAT team is responding to a man barricaded in a hotel room on Chicago’s North Side, according to authorities.

A SWAT team responded to Chicago Lawn Thursday after a person suspected of shooting and critically wounding a man barricaded themselves inside a home.

A heavy police presence was reported in Chicago’s Near North neighborhood Monday afternoon.

A barricaded person was arrested after a police SWAT team responded to gunfire Sunday in the Lawndale neighborhood.

An armed man was arrested after allegedly firing shots Thursday during a two-hour standoff with police at a South Loop apartment. No injuries were reported in the SWAT barricade that ended about 12:45 p.m. Officers responded at 10:30 a.m. that morning for a gunman holed up in an apartment building in the 1400 block of South Wabash Avenue, according to…

A person was found dead Sunday evening when the SWAT team forced their way into an apartment Lake View on the North Side. SWAT officers were called about 6 p.m. after police were confronted by a male, who then locked himself inside an apartment in the 500 block of West Aldine Avenue, Chicago police said. The SWAT team entered the…

A carjacking Sunday in north suburban Skokie led to a SWAT standoff in Cragin on the Northwest Side. About 6:37 p.m., officers responded to reports of the carjacking in the parking garage at Westfield Old Orchard mall, Skokie police said. A man told police two male suspects had stolen his gray Infiniti sedan at gunpoint and sped off on the…

Small towns that don’t have the staffing or money to maintain a SWAT unit properly are doing it anyway. And it’s endangering innocent lives. The mother of a 19-month-old boy, maimed by a SWAT team’s flash grenade, said it was like being “attacked by a vicious pack of dogs…it changed everything.” Unfortunately, mistakes are happening in small communities across...

Small cities often don’t have the resources to meet recommended standards but roll out SWAT teams anyway

A north suburban Evanston man is facing a felony weapons charge after an hours-long armed standoff with a SWAT team Wednesday night in Rogers Park on the North Side. Kyle Samuels, 29, is charged with a felony count of being an armed habitual criminal, according to Chicago police. He also faces a misdemeanor count of reckless conduct. Samuels was seen…

A man was arrested after barricading himself inside an apartment with a crossbow Thursday on the Northwest Side. Neighbors called police about 11:45 p.m. to report that the 60-year-old man was playing music loudly and pointed a crossbow at one of them in an apartment building in the 5100 block of North East River Road, Chicago police said. He was…

Chicago police SWAT team officers will start patrolling CTA trains to get a handle on rising mass transit violence, interim Police Supt. Charlie Beck announced Friday. Beck and Mayor Lori Lightfoot are expected to unveil a more extensive CTA security plan next week. The announcement comes after a recent wave of crime at CTA stations. On Thursday, a 23-year-old man…

It was more than a case of being in the right place at the right time when Chicago SWAT officers Shane Coleman and Peter Jonas pulled a man from the frozen waters of Lake Michigan Saturday Morning.

NBC 5 Investigates NBC 5 looked at crimes reported on CTA platforms, stations, and rapid-transit stations. See the top five most dangerous CTA stations for violent crime and the ones with the least.

SWAT officers were responding to a call of a man with a gun on Chicago’s Near West Side Wednesday morning. According to police, a person was barricaded inside an apartment in the 2700 block of West Gladys. Authorities said they received a call around 8:45 a.m. from someone who said a man with a gun was shooting at them in…

SWAT officers stormed an apartment in southwest suburban Montgomery Tuesday morning, rescuing an infant and arresting a man wanted in connection with a murder in Michigan, authorities said. Montgomery police, Kane County Sheriff’s deputies and the Kane County SWAT team were called to the scene of an incident around 5:30 a.m. in the 700 block of Oakton Drive. According to…