Suburban Cop OK

Not an everyday occurrence in the burbs, but it ended ok:

• A police officer responding to a fake traffic accident report was overpowered and had his gun stolen by a man who fled into a downtown Wheaton bank, took as many as 12 hostages and kept them for three hours Friday afternoon. The man then shot himself to death.
  
  The man was identified as Michael R. Long, 41, of 1400 block of Cantigny Way, Wheaton, according to the DuPage County coroner's office.
  
  The Wheaton officer suffered superficial wounds, police said. There were no other reports of injuries.

Wheaton just doesn't pop up on the radar as a hotbed of crime. The police that responded did so quickly and professionally. Just because it's the suburbs doesn't mean the shit doesn't hit the fan once in a while.