Update: The person of interest in the deputy-involved shooting was captured by deputies about three hours after the altercation, according to the sheriff's office. He has been identified as 40-year-old Draper Harrison. He was booked into the Lafayette Parish Jail on charges of Disarming a Peace Officer (Felony), Aggravated Assault of a Peace Officer (Felony) and Resisting an Officer after being treated at a local hospital for a gunshot wound the sheriff's office characterizes as "minor injuries."
The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office is searching for a suspect involved in an incident early Thursday morning after a deputy discharged a weapon during an altercation.
The sheriff's office says it happened around 6:15 a.m. near the Fox Run Apartments off Pinhook Road just south of Verot School Road following a report of a suspicious person near the complex. A spokeswoman says the person was involved in an altercation with responding deputies at which point one of them fired a shot at the suspect.
