Schools cancel classes, hospital secured during manhunt

UNION GROVE - Some area schools closed and a hospital tightened security as authorities in Racine County continued their search for a man accused of abducting a woman from the medical facility and later shooting at a deputy.

Sheriff's officials say a female employee of Lakeview Specialty Hospital and Rehab near Rochester was abducted by the armed suspect Sunday afternoon and later released in the parking lot of a Union Grove grocery store. That's where the man exchanged gunfire with a deputy before fleeing.

Lakeview administrator Billy Blasingame says only the main entrance at the hospital is being used following Sunday's incident. He says other doors to the building have been secured.

Full story: WJFW

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