Man involved in SWAT incident charged
12/29/20 7:24 PM
HANCOCK COUNTY A man reported to have shot himself after sparking a domestic disturbance that turned into an hours-long ordeal involving the county SWAT team earlier this month has been charged in a county court.
Brian Allen Abney, 40, Greenwood, was booked into the Hancock County Jail Monday on charges of criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon, intimidation, carrying a handgun without a license, pointing a firearm at another and domestic battery.
The charges stem from an incident that began on the evening of Dec. 10, when sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence in the 4400 block of Fortville Pike on a report of a dispute between a man and a woman involving a handgun. A woman who emerged from the home told deputies that a man, later determined to be Abney, was still inside, was armed and that he had pointed a gun at her and threatened to shoot her.
Suspect wounds himself during standoff
Dec. 11, 2020
HANCOCK COUNTY A domestic disturbance turned into an hours-long ordeal involving the county tactical team that ended with a suspect in the hospital after he apparently shot himself.
Sheriff’s deputies were called shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 10, to a residence in the 4400 block of Fortville Pike on a report of a dispute between a man and a woman involving a handgun, according a news release from the Hancock County Sheriff’s Department.
A woman who emerged from the home told deputies a man who was still inside was armed and that he had pointed a gun at her and threatened to shoot her, the news release said.
Updated: 10:35 AM EST December 11, 2020
HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. A domestic situation led to an overnight SWAT callout in rural Hancock County and ended with a man taken to an Indianapolis hospital with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The woman involved was not hurt.
According to a statement released by the Hancock County Sheriff s Office Friday morning, Brian Abney, 40, was taken to the hospital in stable condition early Friday after the tactical team found him inside a house, conscious and alert, but with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Deputies were first called just after 7 p.m. Thursday night to the house on North Fortville Pike west of Maxwell for a domestic disturbance.