By Associated Press - Friday, May 15, 2020

LADSON, S.C. (AP) - Authorities in South Carolina say one person is dead and another in custody after sheriff’s deputies and state troopers exchanged gunfire with a suspect.

No law enforcement officials were hurt in the incident, which began as a pursuit early Friday before ending at a highway rest stop north of Charleston.

South Carolina Highway Patrol Col. Christopher Williamson says a trooper attempted to stop a vehicle going more than 100 mph on I-95 in Orangeburg County.



Berkeley County Sheriff Duane Lewis said deputies joined the chase, which included an exchange of gunfire. The pursuit ended at a rest stop off I-26 around Ladson, where another exchange of gunfire occurred.

Lewis said he did not immediately know whether the person who died was a bystander or suspect.

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