A suspect believed to be the shooter who opened fire in the neonatal unit at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin was taken into police custody just after noon, Thursday.
The suspect, a 22-year-old man, sustained injuries on his wrist, according to a police officer who spoke with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on conditions of anonymity. No one else was reported as injured.
Police received a call from a tipster warning them about a wanted suspect around 11:11 a.m. The suspected shooter showed up at the hospital around an hour later. Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. said he heard word of a live shooter on the hospital's seventh floor just before 12:00 p.m.
When officers arrived on the scene, they discovered that Milwaukee police officers had already arrived in response to reports that a wanted felon who was thought to be holding a gun was in the area. The suspect was found in the neonatal unit holding a baby in his arms. When police told the suspected shooter that he was being taken arrested, he reportedly set the newborn down and took off running.
Although the man did have a firearm in his possession and turned in the officers' direction in a menacing way, he did not shoot at police.
Officers began opening fire at the fleeing man, and he subsequently sustained wounds on his wrist. He was treated for those injuries soon after the incident. Both the baby and its mother were not harmed.
"This is not a situation where a guy came in to shoot somebody," Clarke told the Journal.
The hospital was put on lockdown following the event, and the Children's corporate center and Hospital clinic building are running normally once more. According to the hospital's Facebook page, the medical facility will remain on lockdown until an all-clear is established.
