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Police received a 911 call at about 5:30 p.m. about a shooting
at Martin’s Super Market in Elkhart, the city police department
said in a social media post. When officers arrived, they found
two shooting victims dead inside the store.
When police “engaged” the shooting suspect outside the store,
two officers were wounded and the suspect was fatally shot,
according to the Elkhart Police Department post, which was made
to update information given at an earlier news conference.
The officers were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds, the
post said. One has since been released and the other is in
stable condition, it said.
“In this horrific situation, words cannot express the pain felt
in our community when a tragic incident like this happens,”
Elkhart Police Department Chief Dan Milanese said in a
statement.
The names of the victims, suspect and officers will not be
released until families have been notified.
Erin Swary, a pregnant mother, was at the store checking out and
talking with the person bagging her groceries when she heard a
pop, she told WNDU-TV. She said she first thought the sound was
a balloon but then saw everyone ducking down so she did, too.
“After that I would say there were six to eight more shots, just
one right after another,” Swary said. “So, I was just down on
the ground, just frozen."
Swary said she eventually got out of the store, shaken and
breathless.
Elkhart Mayor Rod Roberson in a statement Monday night asked
people to continue to pray for the victims including “our two
police officers who were wounded, our heroic first responders,
and those at the incident.”
Gov. Mike Braun said on social media that he was in contact with
state and local law enforcement about the shooting.
“Maureen and I are praying for the victims and their families,”
the post said, referencing his wife.
Elkhart is about 15 miles (24 kilometers) east of South Bend,
Indiana.
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