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Suspect Dead, Two Officers Injured In Shooting

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A man died and two Davenport police officers were injured in a weekend shooting. 

The Scott County Sheriff's Office says 26-year-old Matthew Tobin was killed in the shooting, which occurred after officers responded about 5 a.m. Sunday to a burglary report.

Investigators say Tobin exchanged gunfire with the officers, identified as Justin King and Brenda Waline. Both officers were taken to a Davenport hospital with non-life threatening injuries. King suffered a gunshot wound to the head.

Tobin was pronounced dead at the scene.

King has been a Davenport office since 2012, and Waline has worked in the department since 1999.

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.