BRUNSWICK, Ga. – An 18-year-old suspected in a shooting in Glynn County was injured Wednesday following a foot chase with police in Brunswick, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
GBI said one officer with the Brunswick Police Department used a taser on Larry Labraun Kirkland and another officer fired a shot at him.
Kirkland was hurt but is expected to be OK. Neither officer was injured in the encounter.
GBI has been called in by the Brunswick Police Department to investigate the officer-involved shooting.
GBI said the incident began with a shooting Wednesday at a home on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Brunswick.
The suspected shooter, Kirkland, left the home but was quickly found by Brunswick PD officers, who chased Kirkland when he took off running from them, GBI said.
The chase ended about three blocks away in the yard of a home on Wolfe Street.
The officers said they tried to arrest Kirkland, but he resisted, and they saw a gun.
When they spotted the gun, one officer fired a taser at Kirkland, and the other shot at him.
Kirkland was taken to a hospital but is expected to be OK.
News4JAX reporter Briana Brownlee reached out to GBI asking for more details about the initial shooting, as well as an update on Kirkland’s condition and what charges he might face.
GBI said its agents will conduct an independent investigation, and the case file will then be given to the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for review.
