ATF agent shot during enforcement operation in Indiana

June 7, 2018

Police blocking streets in Gary after an ATF agent is shot.

CBS Chicago reporter Jim Williams via Twitter

GARY, Ind. — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says one of its agents has been shot during an operation in Indiana. ATF spokesman Thomas Ahern says the agent from the Chicago Field Division sustained non-life-threatening injuries during the operation Thursday afternoon in Gary.

BREAKING: ATF’s Chicago Field Division is responding to an agent being shot during an operation in Gary, Ind. pic.twitter.com/G94cTtBvLb

— ATF HQ (@ATFHQ) June 7, 2018

Ahern says one person also may have been shot by law enforcement during the operation. According to the Times of Northwest Indiana newspaper, Lake County Prosecutor Bernard Carter said that he was told the second person shot during the operation has died.

The agent’s name and details of the injury were not immediately released.

This is a developing story.