BROOKHAVEN — Two juveniles are in custody following a Monday night shootout with a Brookhaven police officer.
The incident happened just before 11 p.m. when officers stopped the vehicle in which the teens were riding near the intersection of East Monticello and Henry Myers streets near Brookhaven High School.
Police Chief Kenneth Collins said no one was injured in the exchange of gunfire.
He said the officer recognized the passenger in the vehicle during the traffic stop. Collins said the passenger jumped out of the vehicle and began running across Brookhaven High’s campus.
Another unit blocked the fleeing teen on North Third Street, and the youth allegedly began shooting at the officer.
Collins said his officer returned fire and the teen ran.
Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies helped set up a perimeter around the area and officers tracked the teen, who was wearing a court-ordered ankle bracelet.
The teen was arrested near a Progressive insurance office and the Lincoln County School District administration office.
Neither youth’s name is being release because of their ages, although Collins said the youth who fired at the officer could be charged as an adult.
Collins said he wasn’t sure why the officer stopped the teens’ vehicle, but he noted that officers are stopping all suspicious vehicles in an effort to locate Justin Anderson, the gunman accused of killing Billy Ray Thomas and wounding six others in a shooting Friday night at a Brookhaven night club.
