Gary police SWAT team shoots, kills man after standoff
GARY, Ind. (CBS) -- A man was shot and killed by police in Gary, Indiana after he emerged from a house with a gun following a standoff, Indiana State Police said.
As CBS 2's Marissa Perlman reported, Gary and Indiana State Police remained on the scene as of 10 p.m. Nearly two dozen evidence markers were seen clustered together in one place on Chase Street, and more than 50 were seen in the neighborhood.
We are told this all happened in an otherwise very quiet neighborhood in Gary.
Indiana State Police Sgt. Glen Fifield, public information officer for the Lowell Post, said Gary police started getting 911 hang-up calls from a house in the 1500 block of Chase Street in Gary around 3 p.m.
Gary police went to the scene and saw a woman run from the house toward the officers, Fifield said. She told the officers there was an armed man in the house, Fifield said. The man was a relative, Fifield said.
Officers saw a man in the doorway of the house armed with a handgun, Fifield said. They tried to negotiate with him briefly themselves, and then contacted a hostage negotiator and a SWAT team, Fifield said.
The negotiator arrived and tried to negotiate with the armed man for about half an hour, and the SWAT team arrived soon after the negotiator, Fifield said.
The negotiations failed, and the man walked out of the house with a gun pointed at his own head, Fifield said. He walked to a car parked in front of the house and got in, Fifield said.
Once in the car, there was a sequence of events between the man and the SWAT team, Fifield said. He could not go into further detail about what he meant by "a sequence of events."
But the SWAT team fired shots, and the man was killed, Fifield said. It was not known how many shots were fired, how many members of the SWAT team fired shots, or whether the man fired shots, Fifield said.
Family members told Perlman off camera they got a call from their relative inside the home about a quarrel, and rushed over. The man who died is their first cousin.
The family members told us once they arrived, they heard more than 20 shots go off.
Gary police requested that Indiana State Police come in to investigate, as per standard protocol, Fifield said. The officers, also per protocol, will be placed on administrative leave.