A state trooper was wounded by gunshot Sunday afternoon during a traffic stop in Orangeburg County – the shooting coming just a day after an Orangeburg County sheriff’s deputy was killed by gunshot during a domestic violence call.

A massive manhunt ensued at U.S. Highway 301 and S.C. 176 north of Orangeburg after the suspected gunman fled on foot. He was captured about 8:20 p.m. – approximately 4 hours after the shooting - in a wooded along S.C. 176 within a 4-mile radius of intersection along 176, said S.C. Department of Public Safety spokesman Sid Gaulden, who was at the scene.

Gaulden said the incident began when Cpl. Q.M. Brown stopped a four-door sedan in the El Cheapo convenience store parking lot at the area commonly called The Oaks. He was shot in the arm by one of the passengers in the car, which carried North Carolina license tags.

Store clerk Harshal Patel was a witness to the events.

He said a state trooper pulled over a Chevrolet Malibu with three occupants. The trooper got the driver out and put him over the hood of his squad car, handcuffing him, Patel said.

The trooper then got one of the passengers out of the vehicle. He was leaning the passenger over his squad car and patting him down, Patel said.

“At that point I heard gunshots,” Patel said. “I just ducked and went into the back room and called 911.”

The injured trooper came into the convenience and said he had been shot, telling Patel to call for help.

The suspect, later identified as Anthony Darnell Glover, 21, of Columbia, fled the scene on foot. The driver and other passenger remained. They have not been identified.

As law enforcement and emergency personnel descended upon the area, a priority was Cpl. Brown. He was taken by helicopter to Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia.

The search for Glover began with a massive response. At the scene were dog teams from the Department of Natural Resources and the State Law Enforcement Division, a SLED helicopter, plus an airplane. Orangeburg and Dorchester sheriff personnel were involved in the manhunt.

With the search under way, Gaulden told reporters the agencies were committed to capturing Glover. There would be no suspension of efforts with nightfall.

Gaulden said Glover’s problems with the law are not new.

He has outstanding warrants in the Charlotte, N.C., area, as well as a record, Gaulden said.

“Apparently he has had legal problems with the state of South Carolina also,” in Lexington and Richland counties, Gaulden said.

SLED is leading the investigation of the incident.

Asked by reporters about any relation with the Saturday incident near Holly Hill in which an Orangeburg County deputy was killed, Gaulden said the events are unrelated. Both are, however, evidence of the dangers faced by law officers ever day, he said.

Early Saturday, Orangeburg County Deputy William Howell Jr. was shot to death while responding to a domestic violence call on Boyer Road. The suspect in the shooting was killed a short time later when he was struck by a vehicle near the residence. His spouse reportedly was the driver of the vehicle. SLED is investigating.

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