Trooper shot

during traffic stop

ORANGEBURG - A man police say shot a state trooper during a traffic stop Sunday then fled on foot has been captured, a spokesman for the state Public Safety Department said.

Cpl. Q.M. Brown was shot in the arm after he stopped a four-door sedan in a convenience store parking lot at U.S. Highways 301 and 176 about 4:30 p.m., Public Safety spokesman Sid Gaulden said.

Brown was taken by helicopter to Palmetto Health Richland in Columbia by helicopter, but his injury was not lifethreatening, Gaulden said.

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

Anthony Darnell Glover, 21, of Columbia was found within a few miles of the convenience store and was taken into custody without a fight after 8 p.m., Gaulden said.

It was not clear whether he or the other two people in the car had been charged in the case.

The car had a North Carolina license plate and may have been a rental car, Gaulden said.

The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating the case. SLED spokeswoman Mary Perry said Sunday night she could not comment on the ongoing investigation.

Convenience store clerk Harshal Patel told The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg that the trooper had handcuffed the driver and was patting down a passenger when Patel heard shots.

"I just ducked and went into the back room and called 911," Patel said.

Man drowns

in Lake Murray

LEXINGTON - The Natural Resources Department says an Aiken County man has drowned after a canoe capsized on Lake Murray.

Lieutenant Robert McCullough told The State newspaper in Columbia that 29-year-old Nicholas Moore of Belvedere drowned Saturday morning.

McCullough says Moore and another man were in a canoe that capsized and the other man made it to shore. Friends called authorities about 4 a.m. Saturday. Divers found the body Saturday afternoon.

McCullough says the men were not wearing life jackets.

Experimental

plane crashes

PELION - The Federal Aviation Administration says a small plane crashed on approach to the Pelion airport in Lexington County, leaving the two people on board with only minor injuries.

Lexington County sheriff's Major John Allard told WIS-TV in Columbia that a flight instructor and student on the plane had only minor injuries.

FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says the two people on board reported that the engines quit running. Bergen says the FAA will investigate the crash.

According to the FAA registry, the plane was an S-12 XL Airaile registered to Richard Adams of Pratt, Kansas. The two-seater plane is built from a kit and is classified as experimental by the FAA.