BERWYN, Ill. — A suspect in a triple homicide in Central Illinois in was shot and killed late Wednesday night by police in Berwyn after authorities said he broke into a home and fatally shot two dogs.

Just before 11:40 p.m., Berwyn police responded to a report of a male with a gun in the 1800 block of Home Avenue.

Officers located the man, identified Thursday afternoon as John Lyons, 24, of Westchester, but he ran off. Lyons then forced entry into a home in the 1800 block of Wenonah Avenue and shot two dogs to death, according to police.

The resident of the home and owner of the dogs, Scott Wishecoby, said he found Lyons in his basement.

“When I turned on the light the guy was standing at the end of the basement and just started shooting. He shot, shot, shot. I blocked my son and I told him to get upstairs and get his mother and get out of the house. He ran. He was fast, and by the time I was running he was chasing me through the basement shooting,” Wishecoby told WGN.

His wife and son got out of the house and ran to a neighbors. Officers later saw Lyons head eastbound into a yard back in the 1800 block of Home Avenue and proceeded to shoot at officers, according to police. They returned fire and fatally shot him.