| By Big Radio News Staff |

A Janesville man is in custody on two counts of attempted homicide after police say he shot a gun at Janesville police as officers tried to arrest him in an earlier, separate shooting.

Police say they’d been looking for 25-year-old Tyrone Gibson of Janesville on a warrant in a shooting last week, when an off-duty officer spotted Gibson at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Oakhill Avenue, about five blocks north of Washington Elementary School on Janesville’s west side.

Police say when they confronted Gibson, he pulled a gun from his waistband and shot once at a police detective, but missed.

That put the school on lock down for a short time, school officials say.

Police say they chased Gibson as he ran through yards. At one point, police say Gibson, a convicted felon on probation, threatened a resident while still armed with a gun.

Janesville police in a statement said the officer who was shot at showed “great restraint” by not returning fire in a residential area where people at the time were home.

Officers surrounded Gibson in the 1700 block of Peterson Avenue and arrested him.

He’s now being held in Rock County Jail on suspicion of first-degree attempted homicide — one count for shooting at police, and one count in the earlier shooting.

Police in a statement thanked residents in the neighborhood who officers say helped police investigate the incident.

Police for several hours Wednesday didn’t give details of the incident, but said in a brief public alert that it was an “active investigation” north and west of Memorial Drive and North Washington Street, and that people should stay away from the area.

Police at the time said they didn’t think the public was at any risk.

One resident reached out to Big Radio on Wednesday prior police announcing an arrest, saying they were concerned police and school authorities had not passed along details of the incident.

A school spokesperson on Wednesday said when police tell the school district to put a school under lock down or secured hold, school officials typically do not ask police to disclose specific reasons why.