The man shot at police during a subsequent foot chase and was killed when officers returned fire.
in Illinois was fatally shot by police in west suburban Chicago while in the neighborhood of a far-right political influencer.
Nick Fuentes said on X that the man, wearing a motorcycle helmet, was outside his home in Berwyn with a gun and another weapon, rang the doorbell and said, “Yo, Nick.” Fuentes had video from a porch camera Wednesday night. The man shot at Berwyn police during a subsequent foot chase and was killed when officers returned fire, Chief Michael Cimaglia said.The man earlier “parked his car in front of my house and approached my door with his pistol drawn and what appears to be a crossbow. I was livestreaming at the time,” Fuentes said on X, where he also“Fuentes had a reasonable belief that this guy was there to do him harm,” Rascia said Friday, adding that Fuentes didn’t know him.
Illinois State Police are handling the investigation of Lyons' death. Spokesperson Melaney Arnold said investigators were aware of Fuentes' social media posts about an armed man at his door and in his backyard before the shooting.
Meanwhile, police in Mahomet, Illinois, 120 miles south of Chicago, were investigating the fatal shooting of three members of the same family, which occurred earlier Wednesday.
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