One injured in officer-involved shooting, homicide suspect on the loose

Update: 12:02 p.m.

Police are looking for a homicide suspect who led them on a chase in Myers Park Sunday evening that ended with an officer firing his weapon and one man shot.

The Tallahassee Police Department says Deondrea Hudson, 25, is still on the loose following the incident. He is wanted in connection with the death of a man whose body was found Wednesday morning near Chapman Pond.

The officer who fired his weapon has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a TPD internal affairs investigation, said Officer David Northway, TPD spokesman.

Officers swarmed a large swath of the residential Myers Park neighborhood in the darkness Sunday night, blocking off streets while officers investigated just a few blocks from Chapman Pond.

Earlier that night, the officer had been looking for Hudson.

At 7:15 p.m. the officer saw Hudson walk out of an area store and get into a car. The car fled from the officer, who pursued it. Police did not identify the store Hudson was seen at or the direction he led the officer.

However, the car ended up at the corner of Santa Rose Drive and Seminole Drive, where the officer nudged the car by hitting it at a low rate of speed, a tactic called a pit maneuver. The car spun out and stopped. The officer then demanded the two men in the car, Hudson and Kenny Sharpe, to put their hands in the air and get out of the car.

"The people did not comply with him," Northway said.

The officer said he then "perceived a threat" from the car and began to fire. Both Sharpe and Hudson got out and ran away, Northway said.

Officers combed the area and found Sharpe, age unknown, who had been shot. He is currently at a local hospital being treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Sharpe will face charges in the case, but police could not say specifically what those would be.

Officers haven't yet found Hudson, and it's unknown whether he was shot.

TPD was not able to provide the Tallahassee Democrat with many details of the shooting, including how many times Sharpe was shot, the number of times the officer fired his gun or whether Sharpe was hit by the officer's bullet. They didn't reveal whether Sharpe or Hudson fired any shots in return, and what the perceived threat was that prompted the officer to shoot. Northway also chose not to speak any further on the Chapman Pond homicide investigation.

"The details are very very sketchy at this time," Northway said. "We're continuing to work on them, trying to get the story."

If anyone has any information on the case, please call TPD at 891-4200 or 574-5477.

Update 10:32

One person was shot this evening when a Tallahassee Police Department officer fired his weapon while pursuing a homicide suspect.



The officer saw Deondra Hudson, 25, who police say is a suspect in the homicide of a man at Chapman Pond Dec. 31, come out of a nearby store and get into a car.



The car fled from the officer.



The officer followed the vehicle into the Myers Park area, and in an attempt to stop it, hit the car with his patrol car, said Officer David Northway, TPD spokesman. The car spun out. The officer told them to get out, but they did not comply.



The officer, Northway said, at one point perceived a threat so he fired a shot. The two men in the car began running. Police eventually caught up with Kenny Sharpe, the other man in the car, who was taken to the hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot wound.



Hudson is still at large.



The officer has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation.



Check back with Tallahassee.com later for more information.

Original story

Tallahassee Police Department officers are working a crime scene in the Myers Park area tonight.

Officers are currently working the scene at Santa Rosa Drive and Seminole Drive, according to Officer David Northway, TPD spokesman.

The Tallahassee Democrat has a reporter heading to the scene and will provide updates when available.