UPDATE: GSP traffic stop puts Brunswick High in lockdown

Mar. 4—Brunswick High School was put on lockdown this afternoon during a Georgia State Patrol traffic stop that ended in an arrest.

At around 2:40 p.m. this afternoon, Brunswick High went into a code red lockdown after a police pursuit took place in front of the school. With the assistance of the Glynn County Schools resource officers, Georgia State Patrol was able to arrest the suspect, according to a news release from the school system. No students or staff were in any danger and the lockdown was lifted at 2:50 p.m., according to the statement.

By 3:15 p.m., the scene was mostly cleared up aside from SRO officers, a few GSP troopers and members of the suspect's family, who identified him as 33-year-old Shadrick Moody of Seattle, Wash.

Chief of School Police Rod Ellis said his officers were alerted by the Glynn County E911 Center just before 2:45 p.m. that a GSP trooper had conducted a stop on Altama Avenue and needed assistance. Glynn County and Brunswick police department officers also responded to the scene.

SRO officer Lt. Zarak Hasbrouck was one of the responding officers. Troopers filled him in on some of the details, but Hasbrouck said he didn't see the entire encounter. He was told the suspect was pulled over for running a red light, and initially refused to exit his vehicle.

While Hasbrouck said he did not know the finer points, troopers told him the suspect did eventually get out of his car, a white SUV. At some point, he got back into the car against the trooper's orders, according to Hasbrouck.

He and some other SROs showed at this point. He witnessed a trooper threatening to break the man's window, Hasbrouck said the suspect then exited the vehicle and was forced to the ground and arrested.

Troopers found marijuana after searching the car, Ellis said, but he could not say how much. Yoshiqua Jordan, who identified herself as Moody's sister, said the substance was legal in Seattle, where Moody lived, and that he also had a medicinal marijuana card.

Family members say they were on FaceTime with the suspect, Shradrick Moody, during the confrontation and that he at no point physically resisted. They did not have a recording to the FaceTime call, however. Jordan, a Brunswick resident, said Moody kept his hands in the air during the entire altercation.

Jordan said Moody called her on FaceTime because he was afraid he would be killed.

Moody's uncle, Carl Jordan, said Moody was tased in the back by a GSP officer when he attempted to return to his car, but was not incapacitated. Moody's family claims he was tased while he was in his car and dragged out onto the pavement, which conflicts with the story from SROs at the scene.

Two GSP troopers at the scene declined to comment on the situation.

Yoshequa Jordan said Moody was born and raised in Brunswick but lived in Seattle. She believed he works at a warehouse in Seattle, but he also runs an apparel business with his twin brother. He flew in to Brunswick to visit with his family and to see his grandmother, who was preparing to undergo surgery.

Moody had just left her house, she said, when was stopped on his way to the airport to fly back to Seattle.