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Law enforcement officers responded Friday morning to a man who told an officer he had shot himself and then drove to the Zimmerman Park parking lot off of Highway 3 to die.

Sheriff’s Lt. Shane Skillen said at the scene the man’s condition was unknown but that he was talking when he was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. The man had shot himself in the chest, Skillen said.

As of Friday afternoon the man's condition was unknown, said Sheriff Mike Linder.

The 8:20 a.m. call initially came in as a possible drunken driver because of the way the car was moving, Skillen said.

The Montana Highway Patrol was first on the scene and pulled into the parking lot behind the car. The driver told the trooper he had shot himself, Skillen said.

Four MHP officers along with four sheriff’s deputies, an ambulance and another emergency response vehicle all responded to the scene at about 8:30 a.m. Officers closed the park’s parking lot Friday morning.

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