A man who was wanted in connection with a triple shooting in Indianapolis last weekend was charged Thursday with one count of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder and aggravated battery involving the discharge of a firearm in relation to an hours-long standoff earlier this week that left a long-time Chicago police captain hospitalized.
The local charges against Daniel Brown, 42, were approved Thursday. Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy was scheduled to speak with reporters Thursday afternoon about the case.
Hours earlier, Capt. Ed Kulbida, 58, was privately released from John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he'd been since Tuesday evening after suffering graze wounds to the head and shoulder.
Police also revealed Thursday that a second officer was also injured during the standoff. Police said the officer went home Wednesday and discovered blood on his leg was his own and that he had a "welt."
The officer was treated at a hospital where officials discovered a bullet fragment in his leg.
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Another man, Dan Jackson, was killed during the six-hour standoff with police at an apartment complex on the 7200 block of South Lowe Avenue in Chicago's South Side Englewood neighborhood. Police said they are investigating if Brown was responsible for Jackson's death.
Authorities allege Brown shot his his fiancée's friend, carjacked a vehicle and later shot another woman and man on Saturday. He then allegedly stole a tractor-trailer and fled to the Englewood home where his sister lived. Chicago police officers and agents from the U.S. Marshals Service went there looking for him.
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Kulbida was wounded when he and other officers tried to execute an arrest warrant. Though neighbors described an incredible exchange of gunfire, Brown denied firing the shots that wounded Kulbida, McCarthy said Wednesday.
McCarthy said that either of the two shots that hit Kulbida "could have been a kill shot." Doctors removed a bullet that traveled down Kulbida's back and he was reportedly having trouble with hearing in his right ear.
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"He has an incredible sense of humor. I told him if this police work doesn't work out, he should think about the open mic Thursday at Second City," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.
Police chaplain Donna Marquez visited with Kulbida on both Tuesday and Wednesday. She spoke with the 29-year police veteran about her own brother who was killed in a 2002 shootout with a man he was trying to serve a warrant to.
"He knew my brother Don and that just brought the connection right away. I held his hand and kept holding it," Marquez said.
Police were back at the scene Wednesday where shell casings could still be seen from the night before.
McCarthy said the gun Brown allegedly used was legally purchased in Indiana.
"You hear me say it all the time and you're going to hear me say it again, our violence problem is a gun problem," McCarthy said. "It happens time and time again where a convicted felon gets somebody else to purchased a gun for them because they are not allowed to do it legally."
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He said, in total, 39 shots were fired during the incident.
