Police: Man slain after exchanging shots with officers
Posted September 02, 2022 7:00 am
ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) - A man has died after being shot by a police officer responding to a report of a domestic dispute at a home in northern Illinois.
Officers heard a disturbance and entered the home Thursday night where they exchanged shots with the man, Rockford police said.
The man was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The Winnebago-Boone County Integrity Task Force is investigating the officer's use of force, police said.
Rockford is northwest of Chicago and south of the state line with Wisconsin.
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