ROCKFORD — A Machesney Park man committed suicide early Thursday morning by shooting himself outside a Rockford drugstore, according to Rockford police.

Officers were sent at 2:04 a.m. to Walgreens, 3336 11th St., after the 47-year-old man died in a vehicle parked there, Sgt. Brad Stien said. The man was alone in the vehicle; no one else was injured, he said.

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