BATON ROUGE — A man accused of fleeing the cops after illegally firing a gun early Friday morning was arrested.Cameron Knighton, 21, was arrested after he allegedly ran from Baton Rouge police officers who heard a gunshot coming from a car he was riding in.Police said they stopped the car around 2:18 a.m. for a traffic violation on North 22nd Street. Police then heard a gunshot coming from the car and saw a passenger, later identified as Knighton, fleeing on foot while holding a gun.After questioning the car's driver and another passenger, police said that the driver was shot when Knighton accidentally shot his gun. The driver's wounds were non-life threatening.A BRPD drone later located Knighton in a nearby parking lot. He was then arrested after a continued chase, police said.Knighton was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for obstruction of justice, evidence tampering, aggravated battery, aggravated criminal damage to property and resisting arrest charges.Permalink| Comments