A U.S. soldier who died after being shot earlier this week in a confrontation with German police was a 30-year-old Ohio man, the. Army said Saturday.

Pvt. Jeremiah W. Carmack, of Union, Ohio, died early Friday morning at Leopoldina Hospital in Schweinfurt after he was shot in a confrontation with German police after he took his ex-girlfriend hostage in her apartment in the southern town of Koenigsberg and threatened her with violence.

Police said the woman managed to escape and alert police, who then started a hunt for the soldier and used a helicopter with a thermal camera to locate him near the apartment at about 11 p.m. Thursday.

Police commandos found and confronted the soldier, who threatened them with an M4 rifle, leading them to open fire. Carmack was critically injured and rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery but died several hours later.

In a statement, the Army said that Carmack was an automated logistical specialist assigned to the headquarters company of the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment.

U.S. Army V Corps will conduct an internal investigation into the incident, according to a statement from U.S. Army Europe.

"The Dagger Brigade, along with United States Army Europe, takes incidents of this nature extremely seriously and will continue to work with the German authorities to maintain community safety," the Army said.

Carmack's rifle had only half a magazine when impounded, but it was not immediately clear whether he had fired it, police said.

The police investigation determined that the weapon had been legally in Carmack's possession during the day, but that he had not followed regulations requiring him to turn it in for the evening.

Prosecutors in nearby Bamberg said there were no grounds to open an investigation of the police involved.

The U.S. military has been shuttering many facilities in Germany in recent years, but still counts approximately 45,000 soldiers in the country, with a large presence in the German state of Bavaria. Several units are based in Schweinfurt.