{"id":869685,"date":"2026-06-15T21:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/869685\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:31:15","slug":"shelby-co-emergency-alert-issued-over-mental-health-crisis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/869685\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelby Co. emergency alert issued over mental health crisis | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHELBY COUNTY, Ill. (WAND) &#8211; Shelby County officials responded to a mental health crisis just south of Shelbyville on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Shelby County Sheriff&#8217;s Office requested Shelby County Emergency Management Agency issue an emergency alert Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copeland Road, 1800 East, directly south of Shelbyville, was closed for much of the afternoon due to an emergency situation. Shelby County EMA shared that the road reopened just before 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A WAND News photographer at the scene captured Illinois State Police assisting Shelby County officials, while a helicopter is on standby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unknown whether anyone was taken into custody following the standoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026. WAND TV. All rights reserved.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHELBY COUNTY, Ill. (WAND) &#8211; Shelby County officials responded to a mental health crisis just south of Shelbyville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":869686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36],"tags":[14916,210,1818,728,517,16899,339586,353998,147278,67,132,68,147955,147956],"class_list":["post-869685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-decatur","tag-health","tag-illinois","tag-local-news","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-crisis","tag-shelby-county","tag-shelby-county-sheriff","tag-shelbyville","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wand","tag-wandtv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116756263076742897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}