Homeowner holds armed teenage gang member at gunpoint until police arrive; Police say the suspect ran away from the high school after a police officer spotted him with a gun in the carpool lane

A Georgia homeowner held an armed teenage gang member at gunpoint until police arrived to arrest him late Wednesday.

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The 17-year-old man had a gun when he jumped out of a vehicle at Westside High School – in Macon – and ran away on Wednesday This was announced by the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.

A Bibb County School campus police officer monitoring vehicles in the carpool line saw the gun and approached the vehicle, authorities said, adding that the teen was running away at the time.

The suspect was identified in the Bibb County Jail and arrest documents as Zyon Rahquez Hardwick The Macon Telegraph reported. Arrest warrants indicate the campus police officer saw Hardwick with a Bushmaster .223 rifle around 2:25 p.m. while sitting in a Toyota in the carpool school’s pickup line, the Telegraph added.

Hardwick is also a “well-known and well-known” member of the 912 Crip/OTS street gang, the newspaper reported, citing the arrest warrants.

A spokesman for the Bibb County School District told the Telegraph the suspect ran into a woods near the Heath Road campus with the gun, prompting the school to be placed on hold.

A multi-agency manhunt ensued, including the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office, the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Georgia Department of Corrections, the Bibb County School District Campus Police Department, and the Georgia State Patrol. the authorities said.

The homeowner held the teenager at gunpoint and he was taken into custody, authorities said.

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Deputies have not provided the whereabouts of the homeowner and the teenager at the time of the arrest. WSB TV reported.

Bibb’s sheriff’s warrant noted that Hardwick was arrested with the same rifle he saw in an Oct. 7 Instagram photo taken in the Westside High parking lot, the Telegraph said, adding that Hardwick attended a football game at school that day.

The suspect has been charged carrying weapons within school security zones, at school functions or on school property; criminal activity by street gangs; and possession of a pistol or revolver by a person under the age of 18, authorities said.

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office — and the armed homeowner — received high praise from commentators below Facebook post from the sheriff’s office on the arrest:

• “A great job by multiple agencies and the homeowner!!” a commenter wrote. “As always, stay safe out there.”
• “Kudos to the homeowner,” another commenter said.
• “Great job for everyone, including the brave homeowner,” said another commenter written down. “Lucky everyone is safe and the villain is behind bars. Sad that he is only 17 years old. Maybe behind bars he will be taught a lesson.”
• “Great job BCSO and citizen who took action,” another commenter explained.
• “Great job homeowners and LEO… getting this junk off the streets,” said another commenter wrote. “Now our prosecutor and our judges have to do their job.

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