'We were getting shot at from both sides,' detective shot in Englewood standoff says

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Detective Chris Ross was one of two Chicago police officers injured in a deadly standoff with a suspect in the Englewood neighborhood last week.

"As soon as we made contact at the door, gunshots rang out," Detective Ross said. Detective Ross and ten other officers were pinned inside a vestibule in an Englewood apartment building during a standoff last week as they tried to serve a warrant for Indiana fugitive Daniel Brown.

"We were getting shot at from both sides essentially simultaneously," he said.

Gunshots rang out for 30 minutes, he said. Captain Ed Kulbida was struck by two bullets- once in the shoulder and once in the head. Ross said his team immediately shifted their focus from the fugitive to getting the captain out of the building to safety.

"I just thought of sending a text to my wife to tell her I love her because you don't know what's going to happen the next second," Ross said.

Ross didn't realize he'd been hit until the next day. He thought the blood on his pants was from Captain Kulbida's injuries.

"I went home and undressed and my wife noticed that I had a welt on my leg," he said.

She convinced him to go the hospital to get it checked out. Doctors determined Ross had a thin sliver of shrapnel the size of a corn kernel in his leg. He got stitches and said he's healing.

"Everybody's like, 'You got shot in the leg.' Well, Kulbida got shot in the head. I'm a paper cut compared to that," he said.