No major injuries were reported for suspects, victims or officers involved in an incident at midnight on Thursday in the Johnson Lake Road area when police were called out for shots being fired at a pair who were walking down the roadway, and then a struggle with suspects who police ultimately took into custody for multiple charges.

Per a Polk County Police report made available on Friday morning, Amanda and Jared Tucker were both taken into custody and later released on bond for multiple felony charges during the overnight incident on May 12.

Officers first got involved when 911 dispatchers got a call that shots were being fired at a pair who were walking in the Johnson Lake Road area with a bicycle, and then were forced to run when gunfire rang out.

Police found the two who called in at the intersection with Pine Bower Road. They additionally told officers that someone had shouted at them before they heard the shots ring out. Officers asked them to get in the back and point out the house where they heard the shots, and they minutes later found a camper where the two said they were when fired upon.

The reporting officer noted that he took the pair back down the roadway, and then returned to the house with additional backup from both Polk County Police and Cedartown Police.

When police knocked on the door, Jared Tucker, 41, of 2719 Johnson Lake Road, and while being questioned believed he might have been consuming alcohol. He told officers that he saw “some kids messing around with his building, wandering in the yard and across the street and hiding in the woods.”

He additionally admitted that he fired shots, but toward the ground, per the report.

Police decided that with Tucker’s admission that they would take him into custody for reckless conduct and for discharging a firearm 50 feet from a roadway.

When Tucker tried to go back into the camper and shut the door, police were able to keep him from doing so and another officer followed inside. That’s when Tucker’s wife Amanda, also 41, jumped in between her husband and one of the officers. She was then reported to have attacked one officer “and grabbed him by the throat choking him” and was forced to the ground. Other officers went into action trying to get Jared Tucker under control, and he struggled with officers and eventually landed on top of the reporting officer with others atop of Tucker.

Since he wouldn’t stop resisting, the reporting officer noted that he was forced to use his Taser. He attempted to “drive stun,” a technique used in immediate contact with a suspect to get them to end their struggle, but the taser prongs instead deployed as they normally would with a suspect at distance.

Tucker finally gave in, was cuffed and brought outside. Redmond EMS was called to the scene to check out the husband and wife for any injuries before they were transported onward to jail.

After both husband and wife were taken into the squad car, officers got a better explanation of how the pair came under fire during the middle of the night on Johnson Lake Road. The two told officers they were walking from their home on Berry Road to meet another who lives on Johnson Lake Road, and agreed to meet in the middle of their path. The two stopped to take a break at Johnson Lake and Heard roads, a resident of the area asked if they were ok and they stated they were fine, and they eventually moved along.

Then as they continued toward the camper at 2719, they told police that “a woman came out of the camper with a flashlight and began to yell at them.”

They continued to the friends house and met them outside, and the trio turned around when a male began to yell from far down the road with a flashlight. They heard two shots fired at them, and fled the area immediate. The third friend was sought out by police, and provided an additional witness statement about the shots being fired at her friends.

Police then found the bicycle – less than a quarter mile away from the camper – and the gun that Tucker had told police he used to fire the shots into the ground.

Officer confiscated the “double barrel 45 colt hand gun” and also found two spent shell casings. Additional officers on the scene all noted that both husband and wife smelled as if they had been drinking as well.

Ultimately, police charged Jared Andre Tucker with six felony counts of obstruction of law enforcement officers and another felony count for possession of firearm or knife during commission of or attempt to commit certain felonies. He also faces charges of simple assault, discharge of firearms on or near public highway or street, and reckless conduct. He was released on a $10,000 bond.

His wife Amanda was charged with felonies for one count of obstruction of law enforcement officers, and another count of aggravated assault. She was released on a $35,000 bond.