Charges filed against man shot by police; responding officers' names still withheld

VERNON - A Jennings County judge ordered a North Vernon man involved in an incident with police Friday night to be held without bond after a probable cause hearing Monday morning.

According to a press release from Jennings County Prosecutor Alan L. Marshall, Jennings Circuit Judge Jonathan Webster found probable cause to hold 29-year-old Jacob Miller on 11 criminal counts including attempted murder, a Class A felony.

Miller was shot in the right leg late Friday night or early Saturday morning after police responded to a report of a fight in the first block of North Fifth Street in North Vernon.

Police said when officers arrived at the scene they reported they saw Miller, who was allegedly involved in the fight, run into his apartment at 6 N. Fifth St.

Police said as officers with North Vernon and Jennings County police departments approached the apartment they heard what appeared to be multiple gunshots.

At least one officer then fired his gun and officers set up a perimeter around the apartment and called for assistance, police said.

North Vernon's SWAT team arrived and police were able to talk Miller into surrendering. He was treated for his injuries at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis before being booked into the Jennings County Jail in Vernon on Saturday.

The Indiana State Police are investigating the shooting incident, and Marshall said in a press release that it would be "premature to comment until a complete and full investigation has been submitted to my office."

Marshall, the state police, Jennings County Sheriff's Department and North Vernon Police Department have declined to identify the officers responding to the call or who may have shot Miller.

The charges against Miller include attempted murder, a class A felony; three counts of intimidation with a deadly weapon, all class C felonies; three counts of criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon, all class D felonies; battery with a deadly weapon, a class D felony; residential entry, a class D felony; two counts of intimidation, both class D felonies; and public intoxication, a class B misdemeanor.

Marshall said he also plans to file for a habitual offender enhancement against Miller.

Indiana State Police Detective Roger G. Drew II with the Seymour Post presented testimony during the probable cause hearing.