Dupo standoff ends with arrest

Following a man in being shot in the leg around 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the 300 block of McBride Avenue in Dupo, members of the St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department and Cahokia Heights police department engaged in a two-hour standoff with a suspect at a nearby residence.

A spokesman for the sheriff’s department said the suspect, who has not been identified, surrendered around 5:30 p.m. without incident. Charges are pending in St. Clair County.

The man who was shot is reported to be in stable condition at a St. Louis hospital.

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