Deputies drag barricaded man from house on Chisholm Trail

Ron Wilkins | Journal & Courier

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Deputies dragged 21-year-old Ryan W. Rogers from his girlfriend's house on Chisholm Trial Wednesday night after a two-hour standoff.

“When I pulled up behind the undercover truck, I seen them pulling out the guy. It was a hog-tied guy,” said Hannah Bentley, who was arriving at a friend's house on Strawhat Drive a few houses from the 4500 block of Chisholm Trail, where Rogers barricaded himself.

Bentley arrived about 11:30 p.m., driving from Elkhart to visit her friend.

Hours before she arrived, neighbor Alehsha Sellers heard Rogers' demands to be let inside his girlfriend's house.

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“I heard yelling," Sellers said. "I guess he was knocking on the door, and be like, ‘Let me in! Let me in!’

“Eventually she did. And I guess that’s how that whole thing started. They got into a fight and there was a domestic dispute.”

Tippecanoe County Sheriff's deputies received a call about 8:45 p.m. after Rogers' girlfriend escaped her house, where police say Rodgers assaulted her, including confining her against her will, intimidating her with a firearm and battering her with a handgun, according to a news release.

After she escaped her house, Rogers stomped around the neighborhood trying to locate her and pointed a handgun at several people whom he encountered, according to the sheriff's office.

“From what I heard he was pointing guns at people,” Bentley said. “My friend that lives here, he went running after his kids because (Rogers) was pointing guns at kids, too.”

Unable to find his girlfriend, he eventually retreated back into the Chisholm Trail house before deputies arrived.

Sellers was getting ready for bed when she noticed red and blue lights outside.

“They started saying over the loud speaker that the guy needed to come out," she said. "They did if for like two hours. Like every five or 10 minutes, they would repeat the statement.”

Then the SWAT team and its MRAP vehicle arrived. She listened on her scanner how deputies tried to negotiate with Rogers. They couldn't reach him by cell, so they tossed in a bag phone to try to negotiate, she said, describing what she heard and seeing a bag with a long wire leading back to negotiators at a police car.

Rogers didn't come out, so deputies went in.

“It didn’t take them very long to get him out once they were in,” Sellers said.

Rogers was taken to the Tippecanoe County Jail, where he continued to be obstinate, refusing to have his photograph taken. The provided photo is from a September 2017 arrest.

He remained incarcerated Thursday on preliminary charges of domestic battery with prior convictions, confinement with a deadly weapon, battery with moderate injury, battery with a deadly weapon, intimidation with a deadly weapon and criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon.

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