NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. (WCJB) - Investigators determined an 18-year-old recruit from Ocala who died at a Navy training site in Illinois committed suicide.

According to our affiliate in Chicago , first responders arrived at a firing range at the Naval Station Great Lakes on Wednesday afternoon and found Kayshawn Wilkerson, 18, with a gunshot wound to the head. He died at the scene.

An autopsy concluded the gunshot was self-inflicted. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating the death.

Naval Station Great Lakes issued the following statement on Friday:

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