A SWAT situation in rural St. Joseph County led to a search for a wanted man.
It started not long after noon Sunday at a home in the 64000 block of Dogwood Road, which is south of New Road and northwest of Wakarusa.
A caller told police that a man that had a warrant out for his arrest was headed to a home on that road and may have had other stolen guns with him.
“When our officers arrived on the scene a short time later, they initially heard gunfire coming from very close to, or perhaps the backyard of, the house that we had been sent to,” Bill Thompson, the assistant chief of the St. Joseph County Police Department, told ABC 57.
That led to more police, including SWAT officers. But it didn’t lead to an arrest, as the suspect reportedly fled before officers arrived. Dense fog meant the search for him was difficult and that Indiana State Police couldn’t use a helicopter to find him.
Police said he is a 28-year-old black man who is described as ‘medium height.’ He has a warrant out for his arrest for resisting law enforcement in Elkhart County. He wasn’t identified by name.
Thompson said they think the suspect may be armed and still traveling on foot.
