MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (WNDU) – A man is in police custody after an hours-long standoff over the weekend at a Meijer store in Michigan City ended with the suspect shooting himself.
Police say they were called just after 9 p.m. Saturday to the Baymont Motel on Franklin Street on reports of children possibly being battered by a man in the room.
When officers arrived, they spoke with the mom of the children, who said she and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Nathaniel Gruntzel, were arguing because she found out he was currently wanted in the state of Wisconsin for the sexual assault of a child under the age of 13…