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The agents
suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, prosecutors said.
Melvin Toran, 50, was found dead in a Park Forest, Illinois,
home where the arrest warrant was being served by the two
agents. Toran was set to be charged with narcotics trafficking,
the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois
said in a statement.
Toran, who was an alleged high-ranking member of the Black P
Stone Nation street gang, was accused with selling heroin to an
FBI informant, prosecutors said.
The attempted arrest by the agents was part of a sweep, dubbed
Operation Cornerstone spanning more than two years and involving
several other ranking members of the gang.
The agents were treated and released from a local hospital
Tuesday afternoon, said Garrett Croon, spokesman for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation in Chicago.
Croon did not say whether Toran shot the agents or if the agents
shot him in the suburb about 30 miles (50 km) south of downtown
Chicago.
(Reporting by Justin Madden; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Diane
Craft)
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