Officers Shoot Man As He Held Knife To Woman's Throat: Police

ROUND LAKE, IL — Police officers shot a man after they responded to a domestic incident and found him holding a knife to a woman's neck Tuesday night and refusing to let the woman go, police said Wednesday.

The incident happened in a basement apartment in the 700 block of North Park Road in Round Lake at about 6:35 p.m. Tuesday, according to a news release from the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force.

The 33-year-old man is expected to survive and was transported to a hospital with critical injuries, authorities said. The 30-year-old woman sustained minor injuries, was treated by paramedics at the scene and refused transport to the hospital.

The two officers involved in the shooting were also taken to a hospital for evaluation.

Round Lake Police Department officers were first called to the home at about about 6:35 p.m. and met a woman who told police there was a woman in the basement of the home who needed help. Police knocked on the door of the home and the homeowner let them in, according to the news release.

The homeowner told police the woman lived in the basement apartment of the residents.

While officers approached the door to the basement, officers outside of the home looked through the basement window and saw a man holding a knife to the woman's neck, police said.

Police tried to get the man to put the knife down but he refused. The Northern Illinois Police Alarm System, a regional SWAT team, was called to the scene.

Police say the man became "increasingly agitated and refused to drop the knife," according to the news release. Two SWAT team members fired shots, hitting the man, and SWAT team members were able to get the woman away from the man's grip, police said.

Officers provided aid to the man until paramedics arrived and took him to the hospital. An update on his condition was not immediately available and charges against him are pending, police said Wednesday.

Authorities confiscated two knives from the scene, and the attack remains under investigation.

The Lake County Major Crime Task Force is also conducting an independent investigation into the shooting, which is required by state law when an officer or officers are involved in a shooting, according to the news release.