Officer’s suspected killer has died

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Authorities say the suspect in the fatal shooting of an Indiana officer has died from injuries sustained during a shootout with police at an apartment complex.

Terre Haute police confirmed the suspect’s death during a news conference late Friday night. Previously, Indiana State Police spokesman Joe Watts had said the man was “injured/detained” at the apartment building where he was barricaded and that medics were responding.

Terre Haute police spokesman Ryan Adamson says the city officer’s investigation of a homicide early Friday afternoon led him to the Garden Quarter apartment complex on the city’s west side at 6:30pm.  The the shooter was a suspect in that homicide.