Duty Death: Officer Nickolaus Schultz - [Merillville]
End of Service: 06/09/2014
By Police1 Staff
MERRILLVILLE, Ind. — An Indiana officer shot in the head Friday has died.
According to The Merrillville Times, 24-year-old Officer Nickolaus Schultz was removed from life support Sunday after being shot in the head Friday during a confrontation at a condominium.
Schultz was shot after responding to calls of a man who had returned to his former home following an eviction.
The gunman, 33-year-old Michael Hrnciar, was wearing body armor at the time of the incident. He died on the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after shooting Schultz.
Schultz had been with the Merrillville Police Department for 13 months, according to the report.
Police are still investigating the incident.
“We’re looking into what brought this man to this point where he felt he had to engage in a deadly conflict with police, and how do we learn from that and what were the indicators that might have prevented these senseless deaths,” Northwest Indiana Major Crimes Task Force spokesman Bob Byrd said.