Police chased after a suspect and after trying to apprehend him, the suspect fired shots at FWPD officers.
Police say at least one of the officers fired back, hitting the suspect.
Now.
Good evening i'm hunter petroviak.thanks for joining us.one man is in the hospital tonight after a shooting involving the fort wayne police fox caleb saylor is live from where the incident happened and has more details.
It a much quieter scene here on challenger parkway than this afternoon when fort wayne police were called to the travelodge here behind me about a disturbance involving a man with weapon.
When they arrived at the hotel to a scene described by police as chao when the incident unfolded.
A chase a struggle and a shoo how that witnesses described events here on challenger parkway this afternoon.
The call came in as someone with a weapon causing a disturbance at the travelodge hotel.
Officers arrived and identified a white male as suspect.
As they approached they say he took off running mitch stewart was outside the hotel working construction and saw the foot olice came se here looking for somebody earlier, find them and left.
They they came back about four olock and entered the hotel over there and chased a guy out.
Say four to five officers chased the suspect and finally caught him in the wyndham garden parking lot next door and wrestled him to the ground, stop wouldn resisting sherri chilidonia and her husband were going to the restaurant next door, stopping for some food on their way to wisconsin from southern ohio.
They saw the struggle and her husband jumped in to help y husband goes over and tells them that he is active duty military police and wanted to know if they needed any help.
They did say to him yes please, we can get him to stop resisting, please help.
During that struggle, both chilidonia and stewart heard gunshotshe gunshots that were going off was the suspect had a gun he was holding.
Say about 5 shots.
Say that one of the officers returned fire, hitting the suspect.
The man was taken quickly to a hospital with life threatening injuries.
?fort wayne police spokesperson says that the only person injured in the incident was the suspect.
This incident is still under investigation and wel provide you updates online at wfft dot com and on the fox 55 news app.reporting live in fort wayne, caleb saylor, fox 55 news
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