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NewsJuly 28, 2011

TAMMS, Ill. -- Police have identified a man shot to death by police in Southern Illinois Tuesday and the man's female passenger, who was found dead in the vehicle. The man was identified as Bobby W. Curtis, 48, of Panama City, Fla. The woman is Lisa K. Curtis, 50, his wife.

From staff and wire reports

TAMMS, Ill. -- Police have identified a man shot to death by police in Southern Illinois Tuesday and the man's female passenger, who was found dead in the vehicle.

The man was identified by Illinois State Police as Bobby W. Curtis, 48, of Panama City, Fla. The woman is Lisa K. Curtis, 50, his wife.

Authorities say Bobby Curtis was a walk-away from a mental-health evaluation and was brandishing a sword when he was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy after a chase in a car where investigators also found his wife's body.

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Illinois State Police say the Bobby Curtis wrecked his car at a curve in Tamms during Tuesday's chase in Alexander County and was shot when he approached the deputy in a threatening manner with the sword he first used in trying to injure himself.

Bobby Curtis later died at a Cape Girardeau hospital.

State police say the deputy tried to pull over the car driver in connection with the motorist's walk-away from an area mental-health evaluation Sunday.

TV station WSIL reported the woman in the car had stab wounds.

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