Hate crime suspect gets in gun battle with police in Chicago

An illegal migrant accused of shooting an Orthodox Jewish man multiple times as he made his way to a Chicago Synagogue was found dead by alleged suicide in his jail cell.

Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, died by suicide after hanging himself in his cell on Saturday, the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said, according to Fox 32.

"No indication of risk of suicide prior to the incident," the sheriff's office said in a statement.

Abdallahi, a Mauritanian national, was discovered by Cook County Jail staff during a routine security check conducted on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.