Illinois Police Officer Is Shot and Killed Near St. Louis

Pontoon Beach Officer Tyler Timmins in a file photo. Pontoon Beach Police Department/Courtesy of Illinois State Police via AP

PONTOON BEACH, Ill.—A police officer was shot to death Tuesday by a man at a gas station in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis, authorities said.

Pontoon Beach Officer Tyler Timmins, 36, died after being taken to a hospital, Illinois State Police Trooper Jayme Bufford said.