Suspect in break-in killed in W.Va.

Police said the car matched one stolen by a man who shot a Braceville woman.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A man who wounded a Charleston police officer and then died in an exchange of gunfire was a career criminal suspected in a home invasion in Ohio, Mayor Danny Jones said Friday.
Brett Lawrence Hanick, 45, of Moundsville, was fatally shot by Sgt. Eric Johnson after he fired at least two shots at the officer, hitting Johnson in the face and abdomen. The shooting occurred around 11 p.m. Thursday in the parking lot of a Days Inn in the Kanawha City section of Charleston.
Police were conducting an undercover operation and noticed that Hanick had not moved from a car parked in the lot for about three hours, Jones said. The shooting occurred after officers approached the vehicle and had a brief conversation with the man.
Car matches description
Jones said the 2001 maroon Saturn matched the description of one stolen last weekend from a Braceville, Ohio, woman. The woman, Sandra Stesan, was tied up and shot in the arm last Saturday after coming home and finding a man there.
Stesan, 64, has had surgery to repair her left arm, which was shattered by the bullet.
The intruder took the Saturn and a suitcase from her home on rural Kale-Adams Road. Stesan said the intruder wanted a car in the garage, but she said it didn't work.
"I started to back up and he shot me," Stesan said in an interview last week with The Vindicator.
Stesan said the man used a sheet from her house to tie her and gag her.
Hanick was convicted of armed robbery in 1986 and served nine years of a 20-year prison sentence. His criminal record also included subsequent charges of kidnapping, armed robberies, sexual assault and being a fugitive from justice, Jones said.
Hanick also was a registered sex offender, the mayor said.
Johnson was in satisfactory condition Friday afternoon at Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital, Jones said.
"He's OK. He's with his wife," the mayor said.
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