2 police officers shot while responding to a call at a hotel in Illinois

Police were responding to a report of dogs barking in a parked car when the incident occurred,

One police officers is dead and another is in serious condition after being shot while responding to a call at a hotel in Kankakee County, Illinois, Wednesday night.

The two Bradley Police Department officers were responding to a report about dogs barking in an unattended vehicle in the parking lot of a Comfort Inn, according to ABC News station WLS in Chicago.

The officers were shot during an altercation while they were on the scene, according to the Kankakee County Sheriff's Office.

After finding the vehicle, they headed to a room inside the hotel where the vehicle's possible owner was staying. While talking to the room's occupants, those individuals attacked the officers, shooting them, the sheriff's office told ABC 7 Chicago.