Dracy Pendelton

By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com

An FBI agent was wounded Sunday morning following a shootout with a man wanted in connection with injuring a central Illinois police officer.

The unidentified agent was hospitalized with a nonlethal gunshot wound.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Dracy “Clint” Pendleton was wanted for wounding a police officer following a traffic stop on May 7.

Police said a member of the agency’s SWAT team was wounded when authorities approached an abandoned house in the Shawnee National Forest at 5 a.m. Sunday.

A police robot found Pendleton’s body on the second floor. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he shot himself or he was shot by authorities.