Norwich cop shot during standoff; crime scene still active

Norwich and state police respond to a standoff in Norwich, Conn., Monday, Jan. 7, 2013. A reportedly suicidal man shot and critically wounded a Norwich police officer during a lengthy standoff that stretched into Monday night, police said. Norwich police Officer Jonathan Ley was listened in critical condition, Yale-New Haven Hospital spokesman Mark D'Antonio said. Police at the scene said Ley was shot multiple times. (AP Photo/The Norwich Bulletin, Aaron Flaum)
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NORWICH -- Connecticut police say a Norwich officer has been shot and injured at an apartment complex where a suicidal gunman is in a standoff with police.

A spokesman for Yale-New Haven Hospital said Officer Jonathan Ley was reported in critical condition there Monday evening.

Police said the officer was shot several times after responding to a report at about 2:45 p.m. that a man at the Cedar Glen Apartment Complex had threatened to provoke police into killing him.

Police said several shots were fired at about 4 p.m., and the officer was struck.


Police took the wounded officer from the building to a Norwich hospital, and he was transferred by helicopter to Yale-New Haven.

Police evacuated the apartment complex, and were trying to negotiate with the man.