RESULTS OF THE BASTARD LANGUAGE LIT1 dead, 1 taken into custody 6 hours after police captain shot

A Standoff ended late Tuesday as one person was found dead and another person was taken into custody six hours after a Chicago Police captain was shot as he and other officers tried to arrest a man in connection with the shooting of three people last weekend in Indianapolis.

The officer — a captain, age 58, who has been with the department for nearly 30 years — was in serious condition after being shot in the shoulder area and suffering a graze wound to the head. He is expected to survive, according to hospital and police officials.

A standoff with his alleged shooter continued until about 11:30 p.m. late Tuesday, when one man was found dead and a man was taken into custody, police said. Contrary to early reports, it was not immediately known if the person taken into custody was the Indianapolis suspect.

Daniel Brown

As McCarthy told reporters huddled along 71st Street that one person was in custody and another dead, a group of three or four women immediately broke into sobs, with one shouting "They...killed him!" It's unclear how the dead person died.

Indianapolis authorities identified the suspect as Daniel P. Brown, who is wanted in connection with three shootings and a carjacking there over the weekend. Chicago police had been asked to assist in Brown's capture after he had been traced to his sister's apartment in the Englewood neighborhood on the South Side.

“It wasn't a blind thing they went into,” said Detective Chuck Benner of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. “They were actually looking for us.”

Authorities said Brown shot his fiancee's friend Saturday after she intervened in a domestic dispute while they were riding in the same car. Brown allegedly chased after and continued to shoot at the friend when she fled the car, police said. He then fled on foot from the scene, stopping a short time later to hijack a car in a nearby hotel parking lot, according to Indianapolis police.

Brown then returned to his fiancee's apartment, where he grabbed his dog and left in his 2009 Nissan Altima, police said. Authorities said he then shot two more people at separate locations, though they say they don't know the motive for either shooting.

“The suspect and victims know each other, and this was not a random act,” Indianapolis police said in a statement.

Authorities said they tracked Brown to the 7200 block of South Lowe Avenue through a semi tractor-trailer he allegedly had stolen from a Marion County truck yard Sunday.

Members of a fugitive task force knocked on Brown's sister's apartment door to serve the arrest warrant around 5:30 p.m., police sources said. The gunman then opened fire from a window of an apartment as several Chicago officers were walking up to the door, authorities said.

The shooting shut down the neighborhood, as a SWAT team and armored cars descended on the block. CTA and Metra service through the area was disrupted.

Metra trains stopped operating on the SouthWest line shortly after the shooting, according to Metra spokesman Michael Gillis. The last outbound train on the tracks Tuesday evening left Union Station around 6:15 p.m. and was stopped about an hour before returning downtown. The last inbound train turned around at Wrightwood. It was unclear when service would resume.

“We're waiting on clearance from police in the area,” Gillis said.

By 9 p.m., three hours after the shooting, marked and unmarked squad cars still lined 71st Street but few blue lights flickered. Chicago Fire Department Ambulance 24 remained on scene.

Officers kept a throng of reporters and TV camera operators in a vacant lot on the north side of 71st Street, where children threw around a football to one another at dusk. 

At one point, a family was still in their basement apartment, as was another man who scanner traffic said was "laying low," but was not believed to be the shooter. Police were calling out their locations to make sure officers were not hit by friendly fire.

Earlier, there was a report on police radio that one shot was fired inside the building that was not fired by police.

Passersby with cameras snapped pictures on their cell phones of all the police officers who walked past the large crowd and hurried to the scene. This included cops in uniform, plainclothes and some in military-style fatigues carrying high-powered rifles. Illinois state police troopers also walked around the scene to lend some support.

With a full moon over to the east, helicopters hovered and buzzed overhead -- a mix of police personnel and television news. Two armored Chicago police vehicles headed to the scene along 71st. One camouflaged vehicle headed south on Lowe while the other remained ready along 71st

Suddenly, a loud "boom" sounded, prompting a few officers to take brief cover behind a tree and fence. Police then ushered a crowd of about 30 people, including reporters, into a vacant north of 71st Street.


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The last time Chicago police officers were wounded while on-duty was in June, when two officers were shot while exchanging gunfire with a suspect.

Last updated by poemoe Oct 8, 2014.

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