UPDATE: Suspect taken into custody following hours long standoff in Higbee
Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to Higbee Friday night for a suspect who barricaded himself in a car with a shotgun.
HIGBEE, Mo. (KMIZ)
UPDATE:
The suspect was taken to a local hospital around 12:45 a.m. after law enforcement took him into custody.
According to Randolph County Sheriff s Captain James Alley, law enforcement negotiated with the suspect over the phone before firing pepper bag rounds into the suspect s car.
Alley says the suspect shot himself when law enforcement shot the non-lethal rounds into the vehicle.
The suspect was taken to the hospital with serious injuries but he is expected to live.