Southern Illinois officer shot; suspect, 2nd man dead

DUPO, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a southern Illinois police officer is in critical but stable condition after being wounded while responding to a report of a man shot to death. The suspect, identified by authorities as 40-year-old Reginald Allen, was found dead Sunday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his garage in Dupo, a community a few miles south of St. Louis, Missouri. The name of the 49-year-old Dupo officer, a 12-year-veteran, hasn’t been released. He was shot in a shoulder. The officer was responding Sunday to the fatal shooting of 46-year-old Darryl Mantz of Belleville. Investigators said it’s not clear why Allen shot Mantz, but police said the two had worked together.