Police shoot armed man at station; find suicide note in pocket

[police brutality]

By Russell Lissau and Lee Filas The Daily Herald VERNON HILLS, Ill. — A Vernon Hills police officer shot a man armed with a realistic-looking, fake handgun early Wednesday after a brief standoff at the police station, authorities said. The gunman, identified as 53-year-old Howard R. Lazarus of Mundelein, was wounded in the abdomen. Authorities later found a handwritten suicide note in his pocket ...

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