SLED Investigating Officer Involved Shooting in Anderson County
Monday, Mar 31, 2025
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Anderson County.
Anderson County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a home on Brookhaven Drive in Anderson, SC, to serve arrest warrants on a man wanted in Greenville County for Attempted Murder. At the home, deputies encountered the subject of the warrants. He drove away and hit a police car before crashing into a fence. During an exchange of gunfire, the man was shot. He remains in the hospital for treatment. No law enforcement officers were injured. SLED was requested to investigate by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office.
This is an ongoing investigation. As such, no other information about the case will be disclosed by SLED at this time.
SLED conducts law enforcement officer involved shooting (OIS) investigations at the request of the agency involved in the incident or the agency with jurisdiction. When requested to investigate an OIS, SLED’s goal is to conduct a thorough, independent criminal investigation as timely as is possible under the circumstances. SLED agents will conduct interviews with all potential witnesses in this matter. Further, SLED will collect all relevant evidence and will forensically test such evidence as needed. Information gathered in the SLED investigation of the incident will be summarized in a case file report to be submitted to prosecutors.
The incident in Anderson County is the 11th officer involved shooting in South Carolina in 2025. This is the 2nd officer involved shooting for the Anderson County Sheriff’s Office this year.
In 2024, there were 45 officer involved shootings in South Carolina.
The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office had no officer involved shootings last year.
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