About 9 p.m. an officer near 11th Street and Sheridan Road saw a car that matched the description of the one used in the robberies and initiated a traffic stop.

The car took off, and the officer chased it for a couple of minutes before the fleeing car crashed into a gate in a chain-link fence blocking the driveway to an industrial area near 12th Street and Fulton Avenue, Ward said.

At least three people fled from the car on foot through the industrial area, ducking through the hole they had just made in the fence, before trying to jump fences into the backyards of neighboring homes.

Ward said officers caught one man, later identified as Andrew Payton, before he jumped a fence into a backyard.

“They might’ve saved him from getting shot by the homeowner,” Ward said.

Ward said the resident was outside and aware of the police presence in the area and "felt threatened" when two people jumped his fence and ran across his yard toward him.

He shot a one of them, the juvenile, in the abdomen.

The third suspect, later identified as Jaylen Cooper, the older brother of the boy who was shot, surrendered to an officer shortly afterward, Ward said.