{"id":246028,"date":"2026-04-25T09:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246028\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:30:19","slug":"peaceful-end-to-jacksonville-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246028\/","title":{"rendered":"Peaceful end to Jacksonville standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrest Thomas Loughary, 37.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville, IL (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolcitynow.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CAPITOL CITY NOW<\/a>) \u2013 Police in Jacksonville have released more information about Friday morning\u2019s ten-hour <a href=\"https:\/\/capitolcitynow.com\/news\/248842-jacksonville-no-class-at-middle-school\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">standoff<\/a> with who they say was a barricaded gunman.<\/p>\n<p>The incident forced the Jacksonville school district to close the middle school for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Police say they were called to a report of a domestic battery at a home in the 700 block of Park St around 1:30 a.m. Friday. Jacksonville\u2019s Special Response Team and Illinois State Police SWAT officers got involved. Police say Thomas Loughary, 37, surrendered around 11:30 a.m. after negotiations with police.<\/p>\n<p>Charges include domestic battery, aggravated discharge of a firearm, possession of a weapon by a felon, and possession of a weapon after his FOID Card was revoked.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the domestic battery victim was checked out at the hospital and released. Otherwise, no injuries are reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police arrest Thomas Loughary, 37. Jacksonville, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) \u2013 Police in Jacksonville have released more information&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-246028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}