A SWAT team responded and assisted investigators in conducting a search warrant for evidence at a residence in Waukegan relating to a shooting investigation.
The Waukegan Police Department SWAT team leadership contacted the Lake County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team leadership on September 12.
Lake County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli said Waukegan police informed the Lake County Sheriff’s Office that they had obtained a search warrant and were going to conduct a SWAT operation.
The search warrant was to search a residence for “crime-related” evidence at a residence in the 800 block of South McAlister Avenue in Waukegan.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Waukegan Police Department, which have a joint SWAT team, conducted the warrant around 6:15 p.m. last Friday.
The SWAT team conducted an initial entry into the home and ensured the scene was secure, Covelli said.
Two canine units were also at the scene and officers shut down McAlister Avenue to traffic during the incident.
Covelli said the SWAT team then turned over the scene to the Waukegan Police Department so they could further their criminal investigation.
Waukegan police officials said the warrant stemmed from a shooting that occurred on September 9.
The warrant was seeking evidence, including guns, from the home.
No charges have been announced yet in connection with the shooting or the search warrant.
The search warrant occurred in a high-crime area of Waukegan that has seen many incidents in the past, including a 15-year-old boy being shot on the same block in August 2023 and a child accidentally shooting himself in May 2024.
The accidental shooting occurred at the same house as the search warrant last Friday.
In November, a SWAT operation occurred on the same block to arrest a gunman who shot his co-worker numerous times, leaving him critically injured, at a shopping center in Vernon Hills.