The police have the gun. They have a man in custody who was located in the area of the gun.
He's a man who apparently ran from Sgt. Dan Coffey on Evans Street to Court Street after Coffey and other officers responded to a report of shots fired.
Everything else is a mystery.
"We got the gun. We've got the guy. Now we've got to work backward," Coffey said Friday evening while on Court Street.
As for the report of shots fired, Coffey said there is no specific location associated with the shots based on reports received by police.
It's unclear at this early stage of the investigation, Coffey said, if the man taken into custody will be charged with any crime. The police are still gathering evidence.
Coffey chased the man from Evans to Court, where he was tackled and taken into custody. Additional officers arrived on scene, including deputies and troopers, and they commenced a search of the area to try and locate a gun that may have been on the man.
City Fire was requested to assist with ladders so that police officers could climb onto nearby rooftops to look for a possible gun.
An object believed to be a gun was located under a bush between the Key Bank ATM drive-thu and M&T Bank. The object was left in place while officers waited for detectives to arrive on the scene.
Coffey said more information will be released when it is available.
Photos by Howard Owens
