TABLE GROVE, Ill. – Fulton County Sheriffs Deputies are believed to have shot and killed a suspect Monday night, so now an Illinois State Police investigation has begun.
State troopers say it happened just before 10 p.m. Monday near Table Grove.
Deputies were looking for a man wanted on a warrant for Domestic Battery, when the subject pointed a gun at them.
Investigators say both deputies fired their guns, and the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene, near County Highway 13 and East Bailey Road.
Names were not released of the deputies nor the victim.
An autopsy has been scheduled, and the investigation continues.
No one else was hurt.