By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
A DEA agent fatally shot a suspect in a drug probe on Chicago’s west side on Saturday morning, WLS TV reports.
The DEA said it was conducting surveillance on, “an individual and a location known as a multiple-kilogram cocaine distribution point,” the station reports.
A marked police car attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the suspect, Gus Tousis, 43, of Bartlett, who fled and temporarily got away from law enforcement, the station reports.
Authorities attempted a second traffic stop, and Tousis, according to the DEA, turned his vehicle at a DEA agent and hit the agent, who fired his gun. Tousis died at the scene, the DEA said. The agent sustained non-life threatening injuries.
