Person armed with hammer flees on foot near Court St


Police are pursuing a person who fled on foot near Court Street and Veterans Drive. The individual was seen holding a hammer and wearing a mask and dark jacket. Officers are searching nearby woods and have called for medical help.
Audio|Source: Tazewell Sheriff/Pekin Police Main
03:19
Transcript:
A light in color, but it's been expired since 2020. All units, create the airtaker operator traffic to two till situations secure miscovers. I know. If you have a countering unit close. Negative are tied up. So forth. I'm a gunpoint[1]. He's got a hammer in his hand. Copy a gunpoint with a hammer in his hand. Have three. Show me 1060. Power line coming up on Woodrow. Seven. He's taken off each plow. Copy take off. Jeans mask, dark jacket. Copy jeans mask, dark jacket. Copy jeans mask, dark jacket. All court street. On Veterans now, running north. North on Veterans. I lost my cell phone at the intersection, I'm calling at Walmart. Ten. Four, I'm out with the female. Could be just north of the logging. He's in the woods to the north before he reached four, now nine. Ten, four. At the end, the woods to the north to the north. We'll see on that. Yeah, I can try. They didn't answer on callback before. I'll try now. Whoever gets their second. Go east pass veterans. See if you popped out there. Type jump. Taser to play. Taser to plane. Hey, you're too far. Stop. Sam 4. Okay. Okay. Okay. I don't see what else. She's refusing to give her name. There's only one person after. (name withheld), where are you guys at? San 4. I tried calling that number back, San 4. No answer. Set 4? We're right off the corner of veterans in Mall Road. Not Mall Road, in a big field by a fence. You'll see my squawk car over the curb. No, I see you. Eakin, can't find out since then. Commandifies, Copy. Take me a five. Go ahead and start medical. Okay.
Police codes explained
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[1]
gunpoint: Suspect held at gunpoint
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Location mentioned:
Court St & Veterans Dr, Pekin, IL 61554
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