An Indiana police officer was "ambushed" and fatally shot near a federal building Wednesday, hours after an officer in Chicago along with two federal agents were shot while working undercover, the FBI said.
Terre Haute Det. Greg Ferency, a 30-year veteran of the police force, was shot outside the FBI Indianapolis Resident Agency around 2:15 p.m., the agency said in a statement. The officer was on an assignment with an FBI task force on behalf of the Terre Haute Police Department at the time and had been a federal task force officer since 2010, officials said.
An FBI agent shot the suspected gunman, who remains at a local hospital, the FBI said.
The FBI said it entends its "deepest sympathy to TFO Ferency’s family, friends and fellow officers."
Authorities have not said what led to the shooting but were initially looking for a suspect believed to be driving a Ford F-150 truck with rear-end damage and was considered to be armed and dangerous, Fox affiliate WXIN-TV reported.
That unidentified suspect was later taken into custody and was undergoing surgery, the news outlet reported. Ferency was the third Terre Haute office to be killed in the line of duty in the past 10 years, Carter said.
"This is an example of someone that would die for a person who hates who they are," he said.
He declined to provide more details about the deadly shooting and authorities are still searching for a motive.