SLED Investigating Officer Involved Shooting in Pickens County
Monday, Apr 14, 2025
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred on Friday, April 11, 2025, in Pickens County.
Pickens County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a home on Nuthatch Road in Central, SC, to serve an arrest warrant. When deputies arrived to serve the warrant, there was an exchange of gunfire between an armed man and deputies. Multiple law enforcement agencies, including SLED SWAT Team, responded to the scene. After an approximately 12 hours standoff, the man was taken into custody. No law enforcement officers were injured during the incident. The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office requested that SLED investigate the officer involved shooting.
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 Pickens County is the 12th officer involved shooting in South Carolina in 2025.
This is the first officer involved shooting for the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office this year.
In 2024, there were 45 officer involved shootings in South Carolina.
The Pickens Sheriff’s Office had no officer involved shootings last year.
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For media inquiries, please email SLED’s Public Information Office: pio@sled.sc.gov.
