Louisville man arrested after allegedly barricading himself with baby admitted to Sunday shooting

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A man arrested after a standoff with Louisville police near St. Matthews Monday afternoon barricaded himself inside a home with a 6-month old and later confessed to a shooting.

Officers responded to the 100 block of Wiltshire Avenue just after 12 p.m. on a trouble run, Louisville Metro Police Spokesperson Aaron Ellis said in a statement. That's off Wilmington Avenue and Shelbyville Road, not far from Breckenridge Lane, in the city's Rockcreek Lexington Road neighborhood.

Investigators said an armed man who "may have been dealing with a mental crisis and had forced someone out of the residence" was barricaded inside a home with a 6-month-old baby, Ellis said.

Police secured the area and called the LMPD SWAT teams to the scene.

LMPD said the man surrendered peacefully with the baby around 3:20 p.m. The man was taken into custody, and the baby was checked out by EMS but was not harmed.

Police said Clint Dean Lobig, 28, was arrested and charged with strangulation, assault, unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a minor, among other charges.

According to an arrest citation, Lobig's mother called 911 about 8:30 a.m. saying her son was aggressive and agitated. She said she couldn't talk and the line was disconnected. His mother gave dispatch the address through text. That's when Lobig forced his mother out of the apartment and barricaded himself in there with the baby.

At some point before he barricaded himself in the apartment, Lobig went into his mother's room, told her to stop yelling, threw her on the bed and smothered her with his left hand for around one minute to the point she couldn't breathe, police said in his citation.

Lobig later admitted to police his involvement in a shooting Sunday around 6:40 p.m. near the laundromat of his home in the 3700 block of Lexington Road. Lobig told police a SUV was following him, and he shot at the vehicle because he thought it was chasing him.

When officers arrived on scene, they found a man who had been shot. The man was taken to UofL Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

According to Lobig's citation, the victim told police he pulled over on Lexington Road to check his GPS, and an unknown person started shooting at him.

Lobig is being held at Metro Corrections and is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning for an arraignment.

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