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Rural La Salle County man killed in police shootout · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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Speaker 1: Rural LaSalle County man killed in police shootout Written by
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Speaker 1: Tom Collins. This article is being read by an automated
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Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlett. A rural Ottawa man
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Speaker 1: is dead after opening fire Saturday on sheriff's deputies who
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Speaker 1: attempted to serve him with a warrant. Jacob A. Williamson,
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Speaker 1: forty nine, died when officers returned fire. LaSalle County State's
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Speaker 1: Attorney Joe Navarro reported at five forty pm Saturday. Navarro
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Speaker 1: said the deputy who fired the lethal shot has been
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Speaker 1: placed on paid leave, pending the outcome of an investigation
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Speaker 1: opened by Illinois State Police. Details, including a precise location,
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Speaker 1: are pending. Navarro placed the time of the shooting at
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Speaker 1: approximately two thirty pm. Deputies were attempting to serve Williamson
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Speaker 1: with papers, Navarro said, when he emerged from his residence
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Speaker 1: with an unspecified firearm and discharged it, officers returned fire
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Speaker 1: and killed him. Navarro said state investigators would review body
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Speaker 1: cameras warned by the deputies, as well as the home
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Speaker 1: surveillance of the deceased