UPDATE: 9pm- Authorities in Lake and McCook Counties will work with Attorney General Marty Jackley's office to conduct an investigation into Wednesday's chase, shooting, standoff, and arrest of Matthew Rumbolz. Charges against the 37 year old are still pending.
The officer that was allegedly shot by Rumbolz was treated and released from a Madison hospital and has been placed on paid administrative leave. No further details have been released on him.
Jackley released a statement this evening saying "This incident demonstrates the dangerous and important work of law enforcement in protecting the public. The cooperative efforts of law enforcement have successfully brought this standoff to a close without any further injury and loss of life."
UPDATE: 3:35PM: The man suspected of shooting a McCook County deputy is in custody. Lake County Sheriff Tim Walburg says the standoff ended peacefully shortly after 3:30 this afternoon in rural Lake County, when SWAT teams took 37 year old Matthew Rumbolz into custody after locating him in a ditch, armed with a shotgun. Negotiators had been talking with Rumbolz since finding him this morning. No further details were available.
ORIGINAL STORY:
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - (KELO AM) - Authorities have surrounded the suspect in the shooting of a McCook County deputy after a an attempted traffic stop in McCook County resulted in a chase into Lake County.
Lake County Sheriff Tim Walburg says the male suspect is identified as 37 year-old Matthew Rumbolz of Montrose. He's armed with a shotgun, and lying in a ditch about ten miles south of Madison. SWAT teams are negotiating with him. Walburg says negotiations "seem to be going in the right direction".
Lake County Sheriff Tim Walburg says Deputy Dylan Hillestad was taken to the Madison hospital this morning for treatment of a gunshot wound to his arm has already been released.
Authorities say Deputy Hillestad was shot early this morning after a vehicle pursuit that ended in a Lake County field.
Several agencies have set up a perimeter about ten miles south of Madison in Lake County in an effort to locate the suspect who fled after putting his vehicle into a ditch and exchanged gunfire with the deputy.
Agencies on the scene include the Division of Criminal Investigation, Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office, Sioux Falls SWAT, Lake, Brookings, McCook, Turner and Moody County Sheriff's Offices and South Dakota Highway Patrol.
A state aircraft with heat sensor was also on the scene.
Walburg says officials are going from property to property in the area to make sure everyone is safe and trying to evacuate them until the suspect is arrested.
Two area school districts , Chester and Montrose, started classes two hours late today in response to the situation.