Worker Arrested At Elgin Water Treatment Plant
(CBS) -- Police in Elgin shot a veteran employee of a water treatment plant with a non-lethal weapon this afternoon - and the head of that plant says the employee "was having a bad morning and it got out of control."
WBBM's Steve Miller reports the Executive Director of the Fox River Water Reclamation District Robert Trueblood says the lead operator of the plant, a 25-year veteran employee, arrived late for work and was upset about something.
His mother was called to the scene to try to talk to him. Trueblood says some equipment got shut off but he says nothing was damaged and he says the employee didn't make any threats.
"It's not like the Aurora FAA situation, he did not come in with malicious intent or alleged whatever the term is supposed to be, but he came in and was having a bad morning and it just got out of control," Youngblood said.
Trueblood says the man did not have a gun even though Elgin police believed he did. They shot him with a non-lethal weapon and he was being treated at a hospital.