UPDATE: Person killed by McHenry County sheriff’s deputies in Port Barrington

A person was killed early Tuesday morning by McHenry County sheriff’s deputies who returned gunfire after the person shot at them and a woman in Port Barrington, the sheriff’s office said.

Deputies responded to a domestic violence call at 1:22 a.m. in the 200 block of Manchester Lane in Port Barrington, according to a news release.

The home is located in River Walk of Port Barrington, a neighborhood located just west of the Lake-McHenry county line.

“This was an isolated incident and there is no threat to the general public,” the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office said in the release.

Upon their arrival, someone opened fire on the deputies and a woman on the scene, injuring the woman, according to the release. Deputies returned fire, hitting the alleged shooter, who was pronounced dead on the scene.

A spokesman for the sheriff’s office declined to provide the person’s age or gender. The person’s identity also was not released as of 2 p.m. Tuesday.

An attempt to reach the McHenry County coroner was not immediately successful.

The woman suffered injuries that were not life-threatening and was taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, according to the release.

The deputies involved in the shooting were uninjured, according to the release. They have been with the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office for one year and more than five years, respectively.

Both deputies have been placed on paid administrative leave while the incident is investigated by an external group of law enforcement officers, according to the release. The Major Investigation Assistance Team investigation will handle the investigation.

McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally said his office will review the evidence collected by MIAT and make a determination on whether the shooting was justified.

Bonnie Lounds, a resident of River Walk whose house has a view of the backyard and the rear of the home where police activity was focused, said she heard “a bit of commotion” about 1:30 a.m. and then saw ambulances and police vehicles with their lights on in the neighborhood.

She said she saw police checking on the homes of people living across the street from her on Garrison Circle, and a neighbor told her that shots had been fired.

“We knew something major was happening. It’s a quiet neighborhood. We’ve never had anything like this before,” Lounds said. “Very scary.”

She said she was awake until 4 a.m., using a camera on the front of her home to watch as the police probed the area.

Police still were on the scene investigating as of 2 p.m.

Shootings by police officers are “very rare in McHenry County fortunately, and I think that’s a credit to the exceptional training that police officers in this county receive in regard to conflict deescalation and resolution,” Kenneally said.

Among the most recent incidents where a police officer shot someone was in July 2018 when a Lakemoor police officer fatally shot a suspected killer who was on the run from Pennsylvania officials.

In that case, Kenneth E. Martell, 36, was wanted by police in connection with killing an 88-year-old man and disposing of his body in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office determined at the time that the officers involved acted in self-defense.

Just more than a year before that, in May 2017, a Marengo police officer shot a 16-year-old boy, who was accused of pointing a loaded handgun at the officer.

The boy subsequently was charged with aggravated assault to a peace officer with a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of weapons, both Class 4 felonies, the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office said at the time. Kenneally declined to comment on the status of that case Tuesday because it is a juvenile case.

A review by the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office found the shooting was justified.

In October 2014, McHenry County sheriff’s deputies went to a home in Holiday Hills to do a well-being check when Scott Peters fired more than a dozen rounds through his front door, hitting two deputies. As they ran for cover, a third deputy returned Peters’ fire.

A 16-hour manhunt followed.

A jury subsequently found Peters guilty of 15 felonies, including six for attempted murder of a police officer, and he was sentenced to 135 years in prison.

Deputy Dwight Maness, 47, died of his injuries in September 2015, almost a year after the shooting and after Peters’ conviction.