BAY CITY, MI -- A police standoff with a man accused of shooting an officer in Bay City is ongoing.

At about 8:45 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 19, police fired tear gas canisters into 600 N. Sherman St., the home owned by 38-year-old Leroi D. Kocsis, according to Michigan State Police Special 1st Lt. David Kaiser. As of 9:20 p.m., Kocsis is still inside his home, Kaiser added.

At 9:23 p.m., additional shots of some kind were heard. About that same time, a vehicle was towed from around Kocsis' house.

The standoff began shortly before noon when officers with the Bay City Department of Public Safety attempted to execute an arrest warrant on Kocsis, Director Michael J. Cecchini has said. Kocsis opened fire on the officers, wounding one with a graze to his back, Cecchini said.

Kocsis barricaded himself in his home. He has been able to post on his Facebook page and telephone friends and family who were at the scene.

At 9:17 p.m., Kocsis posted on his Facebook: "Tear gas equal gas mask." At 9:38 p.m., he published: "N again mo gas."

Kocsis at about 12:40 p.m. posted the following status on his Facebook page: "I love everybody n my daughter n corrupt police have forced my hand."

Shortly after the incident began, Kocsis' mother was speaking to her son on her cellphone at the scene. She tried handing the phone to a Bay City Times reporter who has previously written about Kocsis, but Cecchini advised the reporter not to communicate with the suspect.

A Michigan State Police Emergency Support Team was on scene.

Cecchini said police hope to get Kocsis to surrender peaceably.

Kocsis in January was arraigned on two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a relation between the ages of 13 and 16. The charge is punishable by up to life imprisonment.

An affidavit contained in court records signed by a Bay City Department of Public Safety detective states that a 14-year-old girl alleged Kocsis had intercourse with her in July 2012.

As of 9:36 p.m., the standoff continues.