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(SUN TIMES MEDIA WIRE) - The man found dead in a Park Forest home where two FBI agents were shot trying to serve an arrest warrant Tuesday morning has been identified as Melvin Toran, a 50-year-old gang member convicted murderer on parole.
Court records show he was convicted of murder in 1984 and sentenced to 20 years in prison, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
Toran’s criminal background also includes convictions for illegal possession of firearms and drug trafficking.
In 2008, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, court records show.
Sources said Toran was a gang member under investigation by the FBI in connection with a drug investigation.
The FBI agents’ injuries were not considered life-threatening, the FBI said. The entire incident was done by 9 a.m.
About 8:30 a.m., Park Forest-Chicago Heights School District 163 told students not to come to school.
“We have been notified by the Park Forest Police Dept. that the situation on Rich Court has been resolved,” a statement posted on Park Forest-Chicago Heights School District 163’s website said.
FBI spokesman Garrett Croon said the agency had an ongoing enforcement action in the Rich Court area in the far south suburb.