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.