Overview
- Authorities identified the deceased as 37-year-old Gerhardt Facko of Palos Hills.
- A 911 caller reported a man with a shotgun who threatened to harm his girlfriend and her children at a residence on Cour Versaille.
- Responding officers encountered an armed suspect and an officer-involved shooting occurred, police said.
- Facko was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center and pronounced dead, with the medical examiner listing multiple gunshot wounds as the cause of death.
- No other injuries were reported, and initial reports differ on the exact time officers were dispatched, a detail not yet clarified.