Officials file charges, release name of metro-east man shot during standoff with police
Charges were filed Friday against a 32-year-old man who was shot and seriously wounded by police during a confrontation on Monday in Madison County.
Brian Scott Kite of Collinsville faces charges of burglary, possession of a stolen vehicle and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, according to information from police and court records.
Kite’s medical condition was not available to be released Friday, Illinois State Police said.
He was shot when he allegedly raised a gun in a confrontation with police in the 9000 block of Rene Avenue in State Park Place near Collinsville, according to a statement from Illinois State Police.
Court records do not list a defense attorney for Kite.
The burglary charge alleges Kite illegally entered a home on Monday in the 400 block of Virginia Street in unincorporated Pontoon Beach while the motor vehicle charge alleges he illegally possessed a 2003 Dodge Dakota pickup truck. The weapons charge alleges he had a Glock handgun on Monday. He previously was convicted of a 2016 burglary in Madison County.
Illinois State Police officers are investigating the shooting at the request of the Madison County Sheriff’s Office and the Collinsville Police Department.
Shortly after a burglary was reported in unincorporated Pontoon Beach Monday night, the Collinsville Police Department located the suspect vehicle and attempted a traffic stop but police said the driver of the vehicle fled.
Police found the vehicle crashed but it was unoccupied.
Collinsville and Madison County “officers set up a perimeter around the area before locating one of the suspects walking on Rene Avenue with a firearm in their hand,” state police said in a statement. “The suspect reportedly disobeyed police orders and raised the firearm, and officers fired, striking the suspect.”
The state police statement doesn’t identify which officer shot Kite.
The Madison County State’s Attorney’s Office filed a petition Friday asking a judge to keep Kite in jail before his trial because his “pretrial release poses a real and present threat” to the community.
Kite was in possession of a firearm and during a “standoff acted in a manner causing law enforcement to discharge their firearms,” according to the petition.
A date has not been set for Kite’s pretrial detention hearing.
Under the state’s revamped criminal justice system that ended cash bail in 2023 as part of the SAFE-T Act, persons charged with serious offenses can be ordered by judges to remain in jail before their trial.