By Cheryl Miller
9/24/2004
A Butler University police officer was shot and killed Friday moring as he questioned a man outside Hinkle Fieldhouse. A few hours later, that suspect was shot and killed by other officers who were searching for him.
Dead is Butler Police Officer James Davis, 31. Police say he died in the ambulance on the way to Methodist Hospital.
The suspect, identified as Kahdir Al Khattab, 26, died Friday evening - several hours after he exchanged shots with members of the Marion County Sheriff's Department.
Initially, police thought the suspect was Kevin Williams, because Davis had called for a background check on that name just minutes before he was shot. They now believe that's the name Khattab gave to Officer Davis outside Hinkle Fieldhouse.
Khattab was wanted on an arrest warrant for battery.
The shooting of Officer Davis occurred about 10:30 a.m. at Butler's Hinkle Fieldhouse. According to IPD, members of the Butler athletic department has called the campus police to report a suspicious man in the building.
Davis was sent to the scene and was talking to the man in the fieldhouse parking lot when the shooting occurred. Witnesses said they heard one gunshot and saw the officer lying on the ground.
After the shooting, Indianapolis and Marion County officers sealed off the area and staged a manhunt through out the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood.
Shortly before 1 p.m., Marion County Sheriff's deputies spotted the suspect in the 4400 block of North Illinois Street. They say Khattab pulled a gun and fired shots at the deputies, who returned fire, mortally wounding the suspect.
None of the deputies was wounded.
Eight IPS Schools in the area as well as the International School at 46th and Capital, were placed on lockdown during the manhunt. Those schools were released from lockdown at 1 p.m. and students were expected to follow their regular bus schedule.
According to Butler officials, Officer Davis Officer Davis leaves a wife and three children: ages 8, 3, and 21 months.
He had been with the Butler Police since January, 2003. Prior to that, he worked as a corporate security officer for Conseco Fieldhouse, where he was responsible for protecting the safety and security of Conseco employees.
Services for Davis are pending.
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