A Bluffton Police Department SUV parked at police headquarters in Bluffton on Oct. 12, 2020.
Drew Martin
dmartin@islandpacket.com
A Bluffton teenager wanted on an attempted murder charge was taken into custody Monday.
The Bluffton Police Department sent out a Nixle alert around 8 p.m. Thursday notifying the public they were searching for Harrison Acker, 18, of Westbury Park. At the time, Acker had last been seen in the Buck Island Road and Simmonsville Road-area neighborhood, where he ran into the woods.
Acker was booked into the Beaufort County Detention Center at 7:27 a.m. Monday and was released nearly 10 hours later at 5:12 p.m.
He faces charges of attempted murder, discharging a firearm into a vehicle and possession of a weapon during a violent crime.
Details about the incident are sparse. Multiple calls to the police department went unanswered Tuesday morning.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
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Sebastian Lee covers Beaufort County for The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2022. If he’s not working he’s most likely watching a good movie or spinning a record.
