Person running through backyards and woods in Chester

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Reported: 08/07/2025 07:10 PM (PDT)

Columbia St, Chester, SC 29706

Audio recording of police officers tracking a person running through backyards and wooded areas near Columbia Street and Johnson Street in Chester, SC, as they try to locate and contain the individual.

Audio|Source: Chester County Fire and EMS

04:9

Transcript:
Or any of y'all on the track? The name is (name withheld), Columbia Street, had it towards Cyprus. I had a human hooking it down the track towards Johnson, between y'all and Johnson. It might be what I've seen like there is wet, so every two I left there. He's calling outbound in mind. He's going outbound towards the bypass. Might be my fella there, he cut up through that sandball where it's loose. Somebody gets down yonder, gonna cut off and come off of the top of where events near man. Baxter, EMS4. EMS4, go ahead. 4 is out at Piedmont Rock Hill. 10-4[1]. You're running. You're going behind these houses on the left side of Johnson. If you're going up, Johnson, he's on the left behind these houses in the woods. He's running towards Columbia. Junior, is he to my left or right? I'm walking down Johnson, towards Columbia. He's going to be behind you in the backyard, behind you to your right, behind them houses. The house my law is shining out? Negative. He's off to the left of your vehicle. It's 10 or 11 o'clock. This greenhouse, I'm going towards the woods now. He's moving deeper into the woods towards you at this time. I just blacked out my light. Just keep me up to him. All right, the house directly to the left of your vehicle. He's in the backyard behind the house directly to the left of your vehicle. He's still walking towards Columbia. Coming around the side of that house, the light just came on. He's cutting through them trees. Wherever is outside here, let's try to set somebody up on that bypass, too. What does he have a relation to me? He's going away from you now, he's going away from you. So, stand by, he keeps circling back around. Y'all coordinate with this Gailer, other drawn coordinator at King Hunt. See, we're going to box in here. I'm right here at Columbia and Johnson. Alright, Dan, work, work me too. From the back driver side of your vehicle, he is at your 8 o'clock into the woods. I'm the White House. I'm looking at General Bull, I can see colors. Stand by, I can't see visible light. Let me switch. Spotlight? Now we go the other way. Turn around, go the other way. You see the spotlight? That's Neil. We got it. We've seen someone. Good job, Big Thought. That's what I'm talking about.

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10-4: Acknowledgement

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Columbia St, Chester, SC 29706

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