The death of a 15 year old rural St. Elmo male has been ruled as self inflicted. Fayette County Coroner Bruce Bowen announced today that the gunshot death of Tanner Rupinski has been determined to be a self inflicted wound. In earlier information on the incident, Fayette County coroner Bruce Bowen says that on Saturday, a rural St. Elmo youth identified as 15 year old Tanner Rupinski died on County Road 1700N of a single gunshot wound. Bowen says that Rupinski was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:26 pm on Saturday evening.