INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the gunfight inside a mobile home that left a central Indiana sheriff’s deputy and a suspect dead and a second officer injured:
Gov. Mike Pence has directed flags at state government facilities across Indiana be flown at half-staff immediately to honor a central Indiana sheriff’s deputy killed in the line of duty.
Howard County Deputy Carl Koontz died at an Indianapolis hospital after being shot about 12:30 a.m. Sunday at a mobile home in Russiaville, about 60 miles north of Indianapolis.
Pence says flags should be flown at half-staff until sunset on the day of Koontz’s funeral. He also asks businesses to lower their flags to half-staff to honor Koontz’s service and sacrifice.
Pence says he and first lady Karen Pence extend their condolences and prayers to Koontz’s family, friends and the law enforcement community of Howard County. Koontz was married and had a young son.
