Three sheriff's deputies were injured in a shooting at a home in an Illinois town on Wednesday, USA Today reports. The Ogle County Sheriff's deputies had responded to a welfare call in a gated community called Lost Nation in Dixon. Someone at the home opened fire, injuring the deputies, who returned fire and wounded the shooter, said Sheriff Brian VanVickle. The deputies and the shooter are expected to survive. The incident occurred at 8:30 a.m., when authorities received information from a family member about a person who "had threatened not only suicide, but homicide." VanVickle said authorities attempted to contact the residents with over 50 phone calls but received no answer. The agency decided to send an emergency-response team into the house at 11:51 a.m. to "determine the well-being of that individual."
Other law enforcement officers have been injured or killed in the line of duty in the last few months. On June 4, Joshua Briese, an Arizona police officer, was shot and killed while responding to a disturbance call involving a large crowd. An Ohio officer was shot and killed one month before the incident in Arizona while responding to a disturbance at a residence. A month before that, four law enforcement officers were killed when gunfire erupted at a house in North Carolina, where authorities were trying to serve a warrant.