Census Bureau shooting suspect, police officer out of surgery

WASH, D.C. -- A man suspected of abducting a woman, fatally shooting a U.S. Census Bureau security guard, and leading police on a car chase through Maryland and Wash., D.C. that ended in a shootout is out of surgery Friday, CBS affiliate WUSA reports.

A Metropolitan Police Department sergeant struck during the exchange of gunfire, is stable and out of surgery as well, WUSA reports.

The slain guard, 59-year-old Lawrence Buckner, died at 7:19 p.m. Thursday after being brought to Prince George's Hospital Center, according to a hospital spokesperson.

According to the station, the Census Bureau Headquarters office in Suitland, Md., is operating on a two-hour delay Friday morning.

The suspect and the injured police officer have not yet been identified.

D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier said police believe the initial incident was domestic in nature.

At a news conference Thursday night, Lanier said the series of events began around 5:30 p.m. with a report of an armed kidnapping in the area of T Street Northeast, WUSA reports.

Police issued an alert on Twitter, describing the suspect as a black male who was driving a green Honda Accord. About half an hour later, a guard at the Census Bureau saw two people fighting in a car which matched the description, Lanier said.

Lanier says when the guard, Lawrence Buckner, approached the car, he was shot. Fire officials in Prince George's County say he was taken to a hospital in "extremely critical condition" with at least one gunshot wound to the upper body. He died early in the evening.

Lanier said the suspect in the shooting was spotted and chased by Washington, D.C., police.

After the suspect's car crashed in northeast Washington the suspect and a police officer were shot during an exchange of gunfire.

At some point between the shooting at the U.S. Census Bureau and the shootout with police, the suspect allegedly dropped off the victim who is uninjured, WUSA reports.