College Student Takes Illinois Officer’s Gun, Kills Self

A 22-year-old Eastern Illinois University student died Saturday after shooting himself with a Charleston (Illinois) Police officer’s sidearm, the Charleston Police Department said.

Charleston Police said Saturday that officers were dispatched to do a well-being check on Yahacov Dennis, a junior computer science major around 1 a.m., the Daily Eastern News reports.

According to the department’s news release , a “rapidly evolving event took place where a CPD officer was disarmed.”

Police said that Dennis came into possession of the officer’s firearm and fired it toward himself.

Dennis died at a local hospital.