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Cops: Off-duty sheriff's officer shot himself

By Carlos Sadovi and Deanese Williams-Harris | Tribune reporters

April 26, 2011

A 40-year-old Cook County Correctional officer used his service weapon to kill himself Monday after an argument with his girlfriend, police said today.

William Washington, of the 20100 block of Sequoia Avenue in Chicago Heights, was pronounced dead at 7:06 p.m. at Saint James Hospital and Health Care Centers in Chicago Heights, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Washington sustained a gunshot wound to his chest at about 6:15 p.m. on the 400 block of West 34th Street in Steger, officials said.