Man dies after being pinned under truck in Round Lake Beach

A man in his mid-30s died Thursday afternoon after being pinned under a pickup truck in a Round Lake Beach parking lot, officials said.

Emergency responders were called at about 4:20 p.m. to 750 E. Rollins Road for a report of a person trapped, police and fire officials said.

Crews found the man dead under a large pickup truck, said Tony Carraro, battalion chief of the Greater Round Lake Fire Protection District.

Round Lake Beach police say the man may have been under the truck with a tool when the truck, for unknown reasons, rolled backward, trapping him.

It took firefighters about 40 minutes using wood blocks and a tow truck to free the man, whose body was turned over to the Lake County coroner's office. The man, believed to be local, won't be identified until next of kin can be notified, police said.