Indianapolis officer mistakenly shoots armed homeowner

Indianapolis police say an officer mistakenly shot and badly wounded an armed homeowner who was trying to protect his wife during an attempted robbery.

The woman ran inside to escape the criminal, the husband ran outside to defend her, and the robber couldn’t start the vehicle during the chaos.

According to IndyStar, while police were approaching the scene, Williams exited his garage holding a handgun, and was shot.

The homeowner who was shot by police in a case of mistaken identity will speak about the incident in a press conference today. The officers believed this was the suspect’s auto and began looking for him around the Williams’ property.

Indianapolis Police Assistant Chief Randall Taylor said a woman called police around 4:30 a.m., saying she had been robbed on her driveway. Police say Mills is a nine-year veteran.

Mills has been placed on administrative leave while an investigation is underway. Williams is in the hospital and expected to survive.

As for the carjacking suspect, police are still looking for him.

The man who police said had stolen Williams’ wife’s auto before the shooting remained on the loose Thursday night. Riddle and Taylor said it was still unclear whether the officer gave any verbal commands to the homeowner. He called the police.

Two separate investigations have been launched after an Indianapolis homeowner was shot by an Indianapolis Metropolitan police officer, RTV6 reports. Police say Mills mistook Williams for the alleged carjacker, who were both black.

Williams said he knew police were there after he was shot by them, and after he had “about 3 million spotlights in my face”.

Mr Williams, from Indianapolis, had called officers to report that his wife had been assaulted by a black suspect with a rifle. “A gun was pointed towards her head”, he said.

The police news release said the robbery suspect was described as a black male, light complexion, wearing a red and white jacket and a dark colored ball cap. Dispatchers tried to call back the man, but he didn’t answer.

“I think that’s really insane”, said resident Angela Parrott, who has lived in the neighborhood for about a year. “Why did you shoot me?'” Williams said.

“Everybody can blame police and everybody can blame the homeowner, but that’s callous”, said Grollnek, a retired officer from the McKinney Police Department in Texas.

Just another insane story in a BAD summer for police officers…