AP – A shooting at a grocery store in northern Indiana in the United States (US) left three people dead, including the suspected shooter, and two police officers wounded, officials said.
Police received a 911 call at about 5.30pm 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.
A pregnant mother Erin Swary was at the store checking out and talking with the person bagging her groceries when she heard a pop, she told WNDU-TV.
