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Parents were frantic during Children's Hospital lockdown
11/14/13
Police shoot, arrest man with gun on building's seventh floor
The frantic mother of a newborn baby struggled to get to the seventh floor of Children's Hospital, shouting into a cellphone, "He's going to shoot my baby!" according to a woman on the elevator with her.
The mother refused to let anyone else push the elevator buttons, said Samiee Cornish, 18, who was on the elevator as police pursued a man wanted on a felony warrant around noon Thursday.
When the elevator doors opened on the seventh floor, the woman "flew out," Cornish said. Through the open door, Cornish saw a swarm of police. Almost immediately, an officer pushed the mother back onto the elevator and pushed the "down" button.
"She just kept screaming and screaming," Cornish said.
Over the loudspeaker, a voice announced "Code blue: Hospital lockdown."
The hospital was locked down for about two hours Thursday after Milwaukee police shot and arrested Ashanti Hendricks, 22, who was visiting a baby on the Newborn Progressive Care Unit of the hospital.
Hendricks was shot in the wrist after he threatened officers with a gun, authorities said. No one else was injured.
The incident began about 11:11 a.m. when police received a tip about a wanted felon with a gun, the source said. The man ended up at Children's about an hour later.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. said his department got the call of an active shooter on the seventh floor of the hospital at 11:59 a.m. When they responded, they found that Milwaukee police already were there seeking a wanted felon believed to be in possession of a firearm. They found him in the neonatal progressive care unit on the seventh floor. He was holding a baby. When police told the man he was under arrest, he apparently put down the baby and fled.
The man had a gun, identified as a .40-caliber Glock, and turned toward officers in a threatening manner, Clarke said, but did not fire at officers.
"He fled down the hallway, while fleeing with a handgun," Clarke said. "With officers in pursuit, he turned around several times with that handgun in his hand."
A 27-year-old Milwaukee police officer who has been on the force for six years fired two shots, one of which struck Hendricks, according to Chief Edward Flynn.
Even after being shot in the arm, Hendricks continued to try to run away, Flynn said. Officers took him to the ground and had to struggle for several minutes to get the handcuffs on him, Flynn said.
"This is not a situation where a guy came in to shoot somebody," Clarke said.
The mother and baby were unharmed, Clarke said. It is not clear whether Hendricks is the baby's father.
The 22-year-old has felony convictions, mostly for drugs, going back to 2009, according to online court records. He was convicted twice in 2009 and again in 2011, records show.
In December 2012, he was charged was possession of marijuana, second offense, fleeing an officer and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Parents were frantic during Children's Hospital lockdown
11/14/13
Police shoot, arrest man with gun on building's seventh floor
The frantic mother of a newborn baby struggled to get to the seventh floor of Children's Hospital, shouting into a cellphone, "He's going to shoot my baby!" according to a woman on the elevator with her.
The mother refused to let anyone else push the elevator buttons, said Samiee Cornish, 18, who was on the elevator as police pursued a man wanted on a felony warrant around noon Thursday.
When the elevator doors opened on the seventh floor, the woman "flew out," Cornish said. Through the open door, Cornish saw a swarm of police. Almost immediately, an officer pushed the mother back onto the elevator and pushed the "down" button.
"She just kept screaming and screaming," Cornish said.
Over the loudspeaker, a voice announced "Code blue: Hospital lockdown."
The hospital was locked down for about two hours Thursday after Milwaukee police shot and arrested Ashanti Hendricks, 22, who was visiting a baby on the Newborn Progressive Care Unit of the hospital.
Hendricks was shot in the wrist after he threatened officers with a gun, authorities said. No one else was injured.
The incident began about 11:11 a.m. when police received a tip about a wanted felon with a gun, the source said. The man ended up at Children's about an hour later.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. said his department got the call of an active shooter on the seventh floor of the hospital at 11:59 a.m. When they responded, they found that Milwaukee police already were there seeking a wanted felon believed to be in possession of a firearm. They found him in the neonatal progressive care unit on the seventh floor. He was holding a baby. When police told the man he was under arrest, he apparently put down the baby and fled.
The man had a gun, identified as a .40-caliber Glock, and turned toward officers in a threatening manner, Clarke said, but did not fire at officers.
"He fled down the hallway, while fleeing with a handgun," Clarke said. "With officers in pursuit, he turned around several times with that handgun in his hand."
A 27-year-old Milwaukee police officer who has been on the force for six years fired two shots, one of which struck Hendricks, according to Chief Edward Flynn.
Even after being shot in the arm, Hendricks continued to try to run away, Flynn said. Officers took him to the ground and had to struggle for several minutes to get the handcuffs on him, Flynn said.
"This is not a situation where a guy came in to shoot somebody," Clarke said.
The mother and baby were unharmed, Clarke said. It is not clear whether Hendricks is the baby's father.
The 22-year-old has felony convictions, mostly for drugs, going back to 2009, according to online court records. He was convicted twice in 2009 and again in 2011, records show.
In December 2012, he was charged was possession of marijuana, second offense, fleeing an officer and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
