One man is dead after police raid an apparent pot growing operation.

Officers from the Southeastern Illinois Drug Task Force and Clark County Sheriff’s Department were conducting the investigation after the pot was spotted by a state police fly over.

The drugs were spotted at a house on the 23000 block of Fishback Road in rural Clark County Illinois.

As officers approached one of two suspects pulled a handgun and shot himself in the head.

The incident is currently being investigated by Illinois State Police at the request of the Clark County Sheriff’s Department.