A police detective in Indiana who worked at the Federal Bureau of the “Ambasted” Investigation Task Force and a fatal shot Wednesday afternoon, the FBI spokesman said in a statement.
Officials identified detectives such as Greg Ferency, a 30-year-old veteran from the police department in Terre Haute City, around 77 miles west of Indianapolis, and members of the FBI assignment since 2010.
Officials provided several details on Wednesday about what had happened.
Christine Bavender, FBI spokesman, said the shooting took place near the federal building in downtown Terre Haute at around 2:15 p.m.
A FBI agent injured a man suspected of being a shooting.
The man was detained and received medical attention to his injury, said Bavender.
Sergeant Ryan Adamson from the Terre Haute Police Department wrote on Twitter that Ferency was “killed in a row of tasks today.” The department does not return e-mail messages that seek more details on Wednesday night.
Governor Eric Holcomb revealed condolences and called the “tragic” shooting and “it didn’t make sense.” Senator Mike Braun wrote on Twitter that Ferency had “did what he had done for 30 years: selflessly protected and served his community.” Bavender said that officials would hold a press conference on Thursday morning where they would provide additional information about the shooting.
“We lost a true public servant today,” Indiana State Police Supervisor, Douglas G Carter, said in a short news conference on Wednesday afternoon.
He went on to say that the attack on law enforcement officers became more general and that “it was not the right time to become a police officer in America.” This year, 161 law enforcement officials have been killed in assignments, 29 of them by shots, according to Petical Down Memorial Page, non-profit organizations that track data.
In 2020, 369 law enforcement officers were killed in a row of tasks, 45 of them with deliberate shots, he said.