(Chesterton, IN) - Indiana State Police are investigating a gunfire exchange in Chesterton that left a man dead and a police officer wounded.

 

It occurred about 8 a.m. yesterday outside the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in the 500 block of Gateway Boulevard.

 

Police said officers from Chesterton responded on a report of a man not a guest at the hotel. 

 

After officers approached the man, police said there was a confrontation and exchange of gunfire. The suspect was dead at the scene while the wounded officer was taken to a trauma hospital in Illinois.

 

Police said the officer has since been released and is expected to make a full recovery.

 

So far, the names of those involved in the gunfire exchange and other details have not been released.