Illinois State Police are investigating a fatal car crash that involved a McDonough County Sheriff’s deputy.
ISP’s Division of Criminal Investigation was called to investigate the crash at 9:37 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27 at the request of the McDonough County Sheriff’s Office.
A spokesperson said the state police won’t release any other information about the crash in order to maintain the integrity of an active and ongoing investigation.
TSPR has asked the McDonough County Sheriff’s Office and the McDonough County Coroner for more details about the crash.
This is the fourth fatality involving area sheriff’s departments in less than a year, including a deputy who was killed in the line of duty.
- Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Nicholas Weist, 34, was struck and killed near Alpha by a suspect’s vehicle during a car chase that started in Galesburg on the morning of April 29, 2022. Daylon K. Richardson, 22, of Granite City, is charged with murder in the case.
- Two Hancock County Sheriff’s Deputies were involved in the fatal shooting of Timothy Ostrander, 31, of Muscatine, Iowa, on July 13, 2022. Illinois State Police said Ostrander entered a deputy’s vehicle and held him at gunpoint. Later, Ostrander was shot by deputies following a short pursuit.
- Jeremiah Jones, 38, of Evansville, Ind., was shot and killed by law enforcement on July 26, 2022, near Table Grove, after reportedly pointing a gun at two Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputies. Jones was wanted on a warrant for domestic battery.
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