Details of farmhouse holdup emerge

TUSCOLA – Documents filed at the Douglas County Courthouse offer details about three county residents who were tied up by two gunmen from Chicago just before the shooting of a sheriff's deputy.

The reports also reveal that Chief Deputy Tom Martin used his squad car to block the way of the fleeing gunmen before he was shot Thursday.

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