Trooper shot in traffic stop

Update: Officer released from hospital

By MARJORIE RIDDLE - mriddle@thestate.com

Updated 12:20 a.m.
A 21-year-old Columbia man was arrested in the shooting of an S.C. Highway Patrol trooper Sunday afternoon during a traffic stop along an Orangeburg County highway, said Sid Gaulden, department spokesman.

It was the second shooting of a law enforcement officer in Orangeburg County in two days.

Anthony D. Glover was arrested Sunday four hours after he is accused offleeing the scene of the shooting on foot, Gaulden said. Charges were pending Sunday evening.

Cpl. Q. M. Brown stopped a silver four-door sedan with North Carolina license plates between 4 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday on U.S. 176 near the intersection of U.S. 301.

After the vehicle pulled into an El Cheapo convenience store parking lot, Brown was fired on through the rear passenger window, Gaulden said.

Glover is accused of fleeing the car, believed to be a rental, on foot into nearby woods, the spokesman said.

Brown was shot in the arm but proceeded to arrest the driver and another passenger and called for backup.

“He was able to retreat, return fire and call for backup and still arrest the other people” in the car, Gaulden said.

Brown was flown by helicopter to Palmetto Health Richland. Gaulden said today that Brown has been released from the hospital and is recuperating at home.

Gaulden said he thought there was a dashboard camera that might have videotaped the shooting. The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating.

The driver and passenger are in custody. Gaulden declined to release the individuals’ names.

In the earlier incident on Saturday, an Orangeburg County sheriff’s deputy, Cpl. William Howell Jr., was fatally shot as he was responding to a domestic dispute at a Holly Hill-area home, according to Sheriff Larry Williams.

The alleged shooter, Derrick Buras, 21, was then run over and killed by a car driven by his wife after he reportedly tried to fire the shotgun in her direction, Williams said.

Staff writer Lee Higgins and The Associated Press contributed.