By Adam Chappelle, WLS-AM News
(PARK FOREST) 2 FBI agents were shot while attempting to serve a warrant in south suburban Park Forest on Tuesday morning.
Nearly a dozen agents surrounded the home on Rich Court around 8:30am when shots rang out. FBI spokesman Garrett Croon says the agents suffered non-life threatening wounds.
Agents initially shot tear gas canisters inside the house to try and flush 50-year old Melvin Toran from inside. When he refused to come out, agents then broke down the door and entered. At that point, witnesses reported hearing shots being fired from inside the home.
Toran was allegedly a high ranking member of the Black P Stone Nation gang. FBI agents had gone to the home to arrest him on drug trafficking charges as part of a sweep involving several other ranking members of the gang.
The federal warrant claims he made a heroin sale to an FBI informant. Toran had a long criminal record in Cook County, including a conviction for murder in the 1980’s, multiple weapons offenses and drug trafficking.
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