UPDATE: The teenage boy suspected of shooting a Morgan County Sheriff’s deputy on Tuesday has been identified as 15-year-old Aidan Young, the Morgan County Coroner’s Office announced Thursday.

MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (WISH) — A Morgan County sheriff’s deputy was shot and injured early Tuesday morning while responding to a welfare check in Martinsville, police say.

The suspect in the shooting, a teenage boy, was found dead in the home by authorities shortly before noon Tuesday, News 8 reporting partner WIBC learned from Indiana State Police. The boy has not been publicly identified.

The deputy was identified as Mallory Schwab, who began working at the sheriff’s office earlier this month. She was said to be stable by Morgan County Sheriff Rich Myers.

Myers said the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday received a 911 call from a teenager expressing concern for a teen boy who had posted on social media about possibly harming himself. The sheriff did not know what was in the post.

When deputies arrived, they were checking around the home. They didn’t receive an answer at the door. Shortly after, the teen fired a shot from inside the house, hitting Schwab once in the shoulder. The bullet went through the shoulder, the sheriff said.

The deputy was rushed to IU Health Methodist Hospital and was treated for her injuries. She was on her way home Tuesday afternoon. The sheriff says Schwab, who came to the sheriff’s office from the Martinsville Police Department, was in “great spirits.” She is a former basketball player at Martinsville High School and Murray State University.

A neighbor who lives next door described what happened moments after Schwab was shot.

“I heard one cop going in and then I heard another one, and then there was a whole army full of them. That’s the first time I seen them bring an Army truck in here … two of them,” neighbor Mike Criss said.

The Army-style trucks described by Criss were special weapons and tactics’ team vehicles from the Morgan County and Johnson County sheriff’s offices.

Law enforcement officers surrounded the house for nearly four hours as they tried to get the teenage boy to respond to their commands.

The sheriff said, “They tried to throw a phone to get inside there; gas. Non-lethal gas was inserted into the residence with no response. A robot was introduced into there also and also a drone. So, there was many attempts to try and contact.”

None of that worked. When officers entered the home later they found the boy dead inside a bedroom, police say, but Myers declined to say how he died. The sheriff called the discovery of the youth’s death “stressful” for the officers.

Criss told I-Team 8 that the family had moved into the house in 2023. “I just talked to the family from time to time and they seem like nice people. You just can’t imagine something like this happening,” the neighbor said.

Myers says there was no threat to the community near the scene. The sheriff did not know if deputies had been called to the scene previously.

Indiana State Police troopers with the Bloomington district will handling the investigation. The state police will be examining the bodycam footage.

Mental health resources

• Be Well Indiana
• Indiana Suicide Prevention
• Indiana Department of Child Services’ Children’s Mental Health Initiative
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