SHERRILLS FORD — A Catawba County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot a juvenile Thursday night at a home on Reed Creek Drive after deputies responded for help locating a juvenile allegedly armed with a stolen gun, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
The Troutman Police Department asked the Sheriff’s Office for assistance finding the juvenile, the release said. Deputies went to the Reed Creek Drive residence at 9:42 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, and found the juvenile with a gun.
A deputy then shot the juvenile, the release said. The Sheriff’s Office did not say in the account summarized by local outlets what led up to the shot, or whether the juvenile fired.
The juvenile was taken to a local hospital for treatment. The juvenile’s condition was not known as of 1 a.m. Friday, Sept. 25, the release said. No deputies were injured.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the incident, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Catawba First News is not naming the juvenile. Further details from the Sheriff’s Office, Troutman police, or the SBI were not posted on the county’s public sheriff pages as of publication.
Source note
Tip that surfaced this story: a local news report on the Sherrills Ford deputy-involved shooting. Core facts above are those the tip attributes to a Catawba County Sheriff’s Office news release, cross-checked against independent accounts from WBTV and WSOC-TV that likewise attribute the same core facts to the Sheriff’s Office. The raw CCSO release text was not retrievable from catawbacountync.gov or the office’s public Facebook feed as of publication. Troutman Police Department narrative details reported only by WBTV were omitted pending a primary Troutman source.
