Illinois State Police officers search for Scott Peters, 52, a suspect in the shooting of two McHenry County Sheriff’s deputies in a home Holiday Hills, Ill., early Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Daily Herald, Brian Hill)CHICAGO – Authorities searching for a man suspected of shooting two sheriff’s deputies in suburban Chicago early Thursday say he is likely carrying a rifle and should be considered “armed and extremely dangerous.”
Investigators believe that 52-year-old Scott Peters fled after firing a rifle through the front door when deputies arrived at his home in Holiday Hills around 1:30 a.m., McHenry County Sheriff Keith Nygren said. The deputies, who remain hospitalized, were responding to a call about a domestic disturbance.
“We simply don’t know his whereabouts at this time,” Nygren said Thursday afternoon, adding that “many, many” deputies were involved in the search.
When the deputies arrived, Peters fired “several rounds through the door without opening it and kept firing through the open door,” Nygren said. Peters’ wife and child were in the home at the time but uninjured, the sheriff said.
Nygren said it was unclear how Peters escaped and where he may have gone, noting that all of the family’s vehicles were accounted for.