Man wanted for murder fatally shoots himself outside parents' Kane County home as authorities arrive: officials
By Megan Jones
| The Beacon-News |
A man who was wanted on a murder charge in California has died after he shot himself in front of his parents' home in an unincorporated area of St. Charles Township Wednesday afternoon, officials said.
Kane County Sheriff's deputies along with St. Charles police responded to a home on Bittersweet Road for a reported sighting of Mark Sypien, the man sought on the murder charge, around 3 p.m.
As police arrived in the area, they heard a single shot and found Sypien on the front lawn of his parents' house suffering from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said.
The sheriff's office had warned neighbors that Sypien might return to the area, and it was a neighbor who called 911 after seeing Sypien pull into the street, authorities said. No one else was injured.
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Sypien was sentenced to 120 days in the DeKalb County jail in 2016 in a plea deal after he violated a protective order. In Kane County, he was found guilty of violating an order of protection in April 2006, resisting a peace officer in June 1993, disorderly conduct in June 1993 and guilty of battery in June 1991.
According to a Facebook post from the police department in Danville, Calif., Sypien, 51, was wanted in connection with the Sunday shooting death of Danville resident John Moore, 76, in a parking lot.
Sypien's last known address was in the nearby Dublin, Calif., area, police said in the post. They said he fled the scene after the shooting and had not been heard from since, but he was considered armed and dangerous.
"We knew that he had ties to the area and were obviously keeping an eye out for him, but we didn't know he made it back to Illinois," Lt. Pat Gengler with the Kane County Sheriff's Office said.
The St. Charles native also has lived in Elburn, Cortland and DeKalb, according to public records.