Authorities in Indiana have arrested a man in the shooting death of an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) officer who responded to a domestic violence call on Thursday, police said.
Leath was shot and killed after she and two other officers were called to an apartment complex in Edinburgh Square in the far east side of Indianapolis, after an incoming call about a domestic disturbance Thursday afternoon.
Responding officers knocked on the door of the apartment and shots were fired through the structure, striking Leath, police said. The other officers pulled Leath to a safe area and found a second woman who had been shot.
Both victims were taken to a nearby hospital where 24-year-old Leath died from her injuries. The other female victim who was shot in the incident is in a stable condition at the hospital and is expected to fully recover. Authorities have not released her identity.
Leath was with the IMPD for three years and was also a veteran of the National Guard.
She was the daughter of a public servant family. Her father was a reserve deputy at Marion County Sheriff's Office and her mother a longtime public safety dispatcher.
"It is with a heavy heart that @IMPD_Chief announces the untimely death of @IMPDEast Officer Breann Leath," IMPD wrote on Twitter. "Officer Leath was a loving mother."
Community Showing Support
Police departments, government officials, and mourners showed their support on social media and remembered Leath.Sen. J.D. Ford (D-Ind.) expressed his "deepest sympathies" and wanted to send his "deepest condolences to the officer’s family during this very difficult time."