SWAT fires shots, suspect dead in Gary shooting

YOU'LL ALSO GET THE LATEST FORECASTS AND UPDATES ON THE WGN WEATHER APP AFTER THE BREAKING NEWS. THE AUTHORITIES ARE ON THE SCENE. MICAH MATERRE: OF AN OFFICER INVOLVED IN A SHOOTING IN GARY. ONE PERSON IS DEAD AND FROM WGN. JENNA BARNES IS LIVE ON GARY TONIGHT WITH THE LATEST ON THIS. JENNA. JENNA BARNES: GRAHAM IKE, VERY ACTIVE RESEARCH HERE IN GARY. AND WE JUST RECEIVED AN UPDATE FROM THE INDIANA STATE POLICE. WE'RE TOLD ONE SUSPECT IS DEAD, AT LEAST ONE MEMBER OF THE GARY SWAT TEAM FIRED RIGHT NOW. THEY DEFINITELY DON'T SAY THAT IF THE POLICE KILLED THAT SUSPECT THERE IS A HUGE POLICE PRESENCE HERE FROM BOTH GARY'S COPS AT THE INDIANA STATE POLICE AT CHASE AND 15TH.

THEY'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 3 THIS AFTERNOON. THIS IS WHEN THE POLICE SAY THEY STARTED RECEIVING 9-1-1, THEY HANGED FROM A HOUSE ON THIS BLOCK WHEN THE POLICE GOT HERE, THEY SAY A WOMAN. WE DON'T KNOW THEIR AGE THEY RUN OUT OF THE HOUSE AND THEY TOLD THEM THERE WAS AN ARMED MAN INSIDE. THEY INFORMED US THAT THE SUSPECT IS A RELATIVE WHO DIDN'T LIVE IN THE HOUSE. POLICE SAY THE SWAT TEAM AND A NEGOTIATOR ATTEMPT TO NEGOTIATE, BUT FAILED WHEN THE SUSPECT LEFT THE HOUSE WITH A GUN TO HIS HEAD AND GOT ​​INTO A CAR. THIS IS WHICH THE TIMELINE GETS A LITTLE murky.

POLICE SAY THERE WAS SOME TYPE OF SEQUENCE OF EVENTS BETWEEN THE SUSPECT AND THE SWAT TEAM. AT LEAST ONE SWAT TEAM MEMBER SHOT AND THE SUSPECT IS DEAD. I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ARE IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THIS SEVERAL THINGS THEY ARE NOT GOING TO COMMENT LIKE HOW MANY SHOTS WERE FIRED, WHO FIRED? AND IF THIS, IF THE DECEASED FIRED HIS GUN, THAT IS ALL THAT WILL COME UP IN THE INVESTIGATION THAT IS UNDERWAY. JENNA BARNES: AND THE INDIANA STATE POLICE ARE IN CHARGE OF THIS INVESTIGATION. IT SAYS THEY HAVE NOT YET INTERVIEWED THE OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN THIS.

SO WHEN THEY DO IT, WE JUMP