BELLEVILLE, IL (KMOX) - Belleville Police report a woman is dead, another injured, and the suspect took his own life. This started Saturday night before 11:30, police responded to shots fired in the 1700 block Jamestown Road in Belleville.
Officers found the deceased woman in the middle of the street. Two other women in a car, one of them had also been shot. All three women were acquainted with the suspect.
The Perry County Sheriff's deputies spotted the suspect's car on Interstate 55 early this (Sunday) morning. Investigators say before deputies could get to him, he took his own life with a self inflicted gunshot wound.