On July 26th, 2016, Winnebago County sheriff deputies responded to a welfare check call to the house on Old River Road.
At the time John Heffran was a 58 year old white man
Only a limited amount of information has been made publicly available.
All that is known is that John Heffran was alive supposedly undergoing a health crisis. When sheriffs went into the home they described John as “combative” so they placed him in handcuffs.
While in cuffs, Heffran allegedly became unconscious and died.
This was the tenth case investigated and ruled justified by the Winnebago Boone County Integrity Task Force and the twelfth deadly force investigation in the 2010’s.