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Tim Jones, a Park Forest police officer and the son of the Country Club Hills Police chief William Jones, died Wednesday, nearly 10 years after he was shot multiple times in a nearly deadly confrontation with an intruder in a vacant house.

Jones, then 24, and a member of the Police Department for less than one year, suffered bullet wounds to his head and his neck during an exchange of gunfire in which the trespasser, Thurman Reynolds, was killed.

Jones survived after undergoing numerous surgeries before leaving a rehab facility more than one year after the shooting.

The announcement of his death was made in an online posting Thursday morning by Park Forest police Chief Brian Rzyski who wrote that “while our hearts are broken we remain in

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