2 Indiana officers shot, suspect dead after gunfire exchange

MITCHELL, Ind. — Two southern Indiana regulation enforcement officers had been shot and wounded early Sunday throughout an change of gunfire with a suspect who fled a site visitors cease on foot and fired on the officers earlier than he was fatally shot, police mentioned.

Each officers flown to a hospital in Indianapolis, the place they’re had been in secure situation with accidents that aren’t life-threatening, mentioned Sgt. John Perrine of Indiana State Police.

The person who fired on the officers was pronounced useless at an area hospital, he mentioned. His title was not instantly launched.

The capturing occurred within the Lawrence County metropolis of Mitchell, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) southwest of Indianapolis, after a county sheriff’s deputy pulled a automobile over at a gasoline station alongside State Street 37 about 3:15 a.m. for a site visitors violation, Perrine mentioned.

That officer was quickly joined by a second Lawrence County Sheriff’s deputy with a police canine and a Mitchell police officer, he mentioned. After the police canine alerted officers to potential medicine inside the person’s automobile, the officers searched it and found narcotics.

When officers tried to handcuff the person he fled on foot throughout State Street 37 right into a grassy space. As soon as officers caught up with him, the person started to bodily resist arrest earlier than he pulled a handgun and fired on the officers “at level blank-range,” Perrine mentioned in a information launch.

The wounded officers had been a Lawrence County Sherriff’s deputy and a Mitchell police officer. Not less than one of many officers was in a position to return hearth, fatally wounding the person, Perrine mentioned.

State police are investigating the capturing and Perrine mentioned they are going to be checking the officers’ physique and dashboard cameras as a part of the investigation.