Right now the man held up inside a home in delaware. Following this breaking news for about 17 hours now. The situation is still rapidly unfolding. Heres what we know. It began about 15 miles away in a wawa. A trooper approached to people inside a parking lot when he was shot and rushed to the hospital and he died. Police were able to take one suspect into custody he was later tracked down to a house. He is now barricaded. We have Live Team Coverage this morning. We gin live on the scene of the standoff unfolding in middle town. Katie, tell us more about whats happening therech. Reporter the last message is that the suspect is still barricaded inside his home. In that neighborhood, take a look are begin e dozens of Police Officers and they are focused on that suspects home. A neighbor took video of the suspect rushing home yesterday afternoon. Witnesses saw corporeal Steven Ballard stopped multiple times. Trooper ballard later died at a delaware hospital. Since police have surrounded t
Firing at them t. Neighborhood the on lockdown, people spent the night out of their homes in the area. That barricade is happening in middle town about 15 miles away from the wawa, where it all started around noon yesterday. 32yearold Steven Ballard died when the suspect opened fire on him in the parking lot. We have live team coverage, corporeal ballard would have reported to work t. Scene begins, just on new information, katie, what did you learn . Tracy the latest news from Delaware State Police is that the suspect recently fired shots at Police Outside his home again. This happened around 4 00 a. M. They followed up with explosive devices, at this time the suspect remained barricaded in his home. Can you see this road behind me is this police are not allowing traffic to get close to that neighborhood. Here is the suspects home investigators tracked him here after witnesses saw corporeal Steve Ballard found multiple times in a parking lot. Since police have surrounded the suspects h
Bachelor star chris soules, one he made himself, before police say he fled the scene. Is he breathing, sir . I cant tell. This morning, a new twist, investigators trying to find out who drove him home. And up in the air. A woman casually takes a seat on a crane 12 stories high forcing a delicate and dangerous twoandahalfhour rescue. What did she say to you . Im okay, how you doing . Im doing good, just hope we can get out of this together. Now shes under arrest. Why she was up there, still in the first place a mystery today, thursday, april 27, 2017. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from stood studio isa in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. I guess you file that last one in the category of things you dont see every day. But luckily it ended okay. Yeah, but a dangerous situation there. Well have more on that in a moment. But were going to begin on this thursday morning with a real flurry of activity
Minutes away they opened fire on imhad the parking lot. Reporter there were indications all of this had come to an end. We saw some of that heavy equipment coming down to road away from where the stand off was taking place. There is also a helicopters that is hovering overhead. Now this road is open again. This is where the Police Barricade initially was. We know how it ended. As you said, at 9 17 this morning the suspect came out of his house and engaged with officer. Thats when he was shot by police and pronounced dead at the scene and its been a long 24 hours. Locked up inside of their own homes as police tried to get the suspect to surrender. When that didnt work officers used explosives to knock the door off and break windows to the home. Even that didnt stop the suspect. We know he was firing at officers as recent as 4 00 this morning. As of now the name of the suspect has not been released. I should mention quite a few people spent the night away from home. They are allows to sp
State police got emotional describing the events. He ran after the. Trooper still firing hitting him multiple toims, even as his body was on the ground. He got away ending up as his home. He confessed on the phone to a Family Member who then called 911. The violence continued. The suspect began firing multiple rounds at the officers. Then at 4 00 this morning, more gunshots came from inside the house. We know he was definitely armed and equipped. You can see how police tried to gain entry from trying to blow out the windows. He emerged with. Weapons and police fired. Investigators would not go into. Detail about his criminal history, but we know because we have his mug shot that he was arrested a few years back in florida on drug and weapons charges. Live at Delaware State Police troop 2, nbc 10 news. We want to give you a closer look at the house where he hid from police. This is tr sky force 10 shortly after the standoff ended. You can see broken windows, siding ripped off the house