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GRANITE CITY - A person was shot and at Cheapies Tires at 1525 Madison Avenue in Granite City and later died, police confirm. First responders immediately responded and did CPR on the shooting victim.

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Granite City Police, Granite City Fire Department, and others responded to the scene.

Granite City Police put out an ISPERN on the scanner that they were looking for a black male suspect driving a reddish with white stripes on the side Charger headed toward Madison. After a high-speed pursuit with multiple law enforcement agencies, the man crashed his vehicle and at the McKinley Bridge and apparently shot himself and then was rushed to a hospital from the scene.

Law enforcement is treating the situation as a homicide. The McKinley Bridge was temporarily closed with law enforcement conducted an investigation.

Dan Brannan also contributed to this story.

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