Beech Grove [Indiana] police officer killed, another injured in shooting; suspect in custody

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Beech Grove police officer killed, another injured in shooting; suspect in custody

by: Gregg Montgomery
Posted: Feb 16, 2026 / 06:18 PM EST / Updated: Feb 17, 2026 / 12:01 AM EST

BEECH GROVE, Ind. (WISH) — A 33-year-old Beech Grove police officer was shot and killed Monday in the Marion County city, and another officer received injuries not believed to be life-threatening, the department’s chief said.

The announcement was made Monday night as hundreds of police officers in Indianapolis were searching for Kenneth Terrell Johnson, who an Indiana State Police spokesman said had opened fire on the two officers as they responded to a disturbance in an apartment.

About an hour after the announcement of Officer Brian Elliott’s death, the state police spokesman said on social media that the suspect was in custody, apprehended by a special weapons and tactics team of Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. The spokesman, Sgt. John Perrine, later said in an impromptu news conference just after 11 p.m. that a community member found Johnson hiding in a shared laundry area of an apartment complex, a few hundreds yards from where the police officers were shot, and alerted police.

Authorities have not said where Johnson, 47, is from. Perrine said he was not immediately sure if police had any interactions with Johnson earlier Monday.

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