I live in Rockport, where the standoff took place. Owensboro is about 10 miles from here.

Everyone is home now and the standoff is over. I don't know how it ended. Hopefully, this person surrendered.

This is just a rumor, so I don't know if it is true or not, but our neighbor said this man was on his way to kill his girlfriend, who lives in the apartments a couple of blocks from here, and he was going to kill his son, who goes to the same school two of my children attend. If what he is saying is true, this could have turned out much worse.

I have to leave for work now. I will give y'all an update when I get home.

Police standoff in downtown Rockport ends without injury




Associated Press - October 8, 2007 6:14 PM ET

ROCKPORT, Ind. (AP) - A gunman who holed up in his van in downtown Rockport after a police chase is in jail after he surrendered to police.

Indiana State Police Sgt. Chad Dick says William L. Rush, of Clover Port, Ky., surrendered peacefully about 4:15 p.m. after a standoff that began about 1 p.m.

Police were pursuing the man after a domestic disturbance when he stopped his van near a grocery store and refused to come out. Police say he was armed with a handgun. No one else was in the vehicle.

There were no injuries.

Rush is being held on charges of resisting law enforcement and a probation violation out of Kentucky.

Officials at schools in the town about 30 miles southeast of Evansville held students from going home during the standoff.

Me too Rico.

Thanks for posting this. I thought about finding something and posting it tonight, when I got home from work. The only thing that is not accurate in this report is that he was in a 4 door car, not a van.

I have not been able to find out any more details on this incident. The good news is no one was hurt.