(AP) -- SOUTH ROCKWOOD, Mich. - A Monroe County police officer is expected to survive a gunshot wound he sustained during a standoff with a man who police say shot himself in the head.
South Rockwood police Chief James Miller tells The Monroe Evening News that Cpl. Thomas Murphy has emerged from surgery.
Murphy was shot outside a home Monday in rural Berlin Township, about 30 miles south-southwest of Detroit.
Sheriff's Lt. Todd Opperman tells the newspaper the 56-year-old man who barricaded himself in his home for about three hours was in guarded condition at a hospital Monday afternoon.
The sheriff's department says officers responded to a report of shots being fired from the driveway into the house. Murphy used a Taser gun during the standoff.
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