(Updated/Radio Iowa) – Residents in Coggin have been told to stay inside and lock their doors as authorities search for a suspect who seriously wounded a sheriff’s deputy during a convenience store robbery. A Linn County deputy responded to an alarm at the Casey’s on Highway 13 in Coggin at about 10:15 Sunday night and was shot several times. He was flown to the University of Iowa Hospitals for treatment. According to a news release from the Linn County Sheriff’s office, the suspect fled in a van, another deputy followed the van, the van crashed on the north edge of Coggin and the suspect started running.

Authorities describe the suspect as a black man in his 30s who weighs about 200 pounds and is somewhere between 5 foot 10 and 6 foot two. The Casey’s store where the incident occurred has reopened this (Monday) morning.