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Authorities say a central Illinois man has died in an officer-involved shooting.
Tazewell County Chief Deputy Jeff Lower tells WEEK-TV that officers went to a house in rural Mackinaw on Friday morning in response to a call of a possibly suicidal person with a gun.
Mackinaw is about 20 miles southeast of Peoria.
Lower says a 19-year-old man came out of the house and pointed a weapon toward at least one officer, and a Tazewell County sheriff’s deputy then shot him in self-defense.
The man was pronounced dead at a hospital. His name hasn’t been released.
Lower said the man had a history of mental problems.
Lower says a deputy also was transported to a hospital, but it wasn’t clear why.
