MARTINSVILLE, Ind. – UPDATE (4:20 p.m.): Morgan County Sheriff’s Office deputy Mallory Schwab returned home Tuesday afternoon from IU Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. She was treated for a gunshot wound in the shoulder after being shot early Tuesday morning. The sheriff’s department says she had been on duty and responding to a welfare check at a house in Martinsville.
When law enforcement officers entered the home at around noon, they found a teenage boy dead in the bedroom. He was believed to be the shooting suspect. His name has not yet been released.
Morgan County Sheriff Rich Myers says the Indiana State Police will be handling the investigation.
Deputy Schwab said she wanted to “thank everyone for their outpouring of thought, prayers, and concerns for her and her family.”
Original (12:44 p.m.): The Morgan County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched, on Tuesday at around 7:30 a.m., to the 7000 block of Beech Grove Road, in Martinsville, for a reported welfare check of a possible suicidal person.
Several law enforcement agencies went to the scene to assist. Johnson County Sheriff Duane Burgess responded and he said that the Morgan County and Johnson County Sheriff’s Office Tactical Teams were working together.
Shortly after deputies arrived and received no answer at the door, a male subject allegedly fired a shot from inside the house striking a deputy. The deputy, Mallory K. Schwab was transported to an Indianapolis hospital via ambulance. Morgan County Sheriff Rich Myers accompanied her and said she was in stable condition and was expected to make a full recovery.
Law enforcement continued to try and make contact with the person inside the house but failed to get any response. When they entered the home they found a body.
