Update: The standoff has ended and a suspect is in custody.

This post was updated at 4:49 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15 with the wounded officer’s condition.

Police are still surrounding a mobile home on Bentley Lane in Lower Swatara Township where late Monday night a man is believed to have shot at and wounded a township police officer who was responding to an attempted break-in call.

The officer is being treated at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where he is listed in fair condition this morning.

The suspect, whose identity has not been released by police, is believed to be in the home at 130 Bentley Lane, which has been cordoned off by teams of responding officers while investigators and negotiators evaluate the situation and try to bring it to a peaceful end.

As of 3 a.m., however, Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo said negotiators had not yet been able to establish direct contact with the subject, so there was little hard information about his condition or any sense for when the stand-off would end.

Chardo said the incident began shortly after 11 p.m. Monday, when officers were called to the mobile home park between Vine Street and Swatara Creek for reports that a man was trying to break in to the home where his ex-girlfriend was living. It was not immediately clear what, if any, prior history of domestic violence existed between the two.

While little has been revealed about the initial confrontation, it is known from emergency dispatches that one officer was shot, and Chardo said that the investigators are operating under the belief that the subject shot him. It was not clear for this report if police returned fire.

Chardo declined to name the officer Tuesday morning, saying that he wanted to leave that to Lower Swatara Police Chief Jeffrey Vargo. Initial emergency dispatches had described the officer’s injury as a leg wound, and he was taken to Hershey Medical Center for treatment.

Police evacuated a portion of the park as a precaution as the situation continues to unfold.

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