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Carbondale Police Press Release - Aggravated Battery with a Firearm
NEWS RELEASE
City of Carbondale, Illinois
May 14, 2026
For Immediate Release
CARBONDALE – On May 13, 2026, at 3:46 a.m., City of Carbondale Police Officers responded to the 700 block of South Lewis Lane in reference to a report of shots fired. Officers arrived and located a victim with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. This victim received medical treatment on scene. While investigating the initial call, officers learned a second victim had arrived at the Memorial Hospital of Carbondale for treatment of a non-life-threatening gunshot wound.
Officers recovered two discarded firearms from the scene and found that the property had been damaged during the incident. They also found that the incident occurred during a quarrel between known associates. The investigation then led the Carbondale Police Department’s Special Response Team (SRT), with assistance from members of the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System (ILEAS), to execute a search warrant in the 400 block of South Lake Heights. A Civic Alert was put out while officers were in the 400 block of South Lake Heights.
As a result of the continuing investigation, a 15-year-old juvenile from Harrisburg, IL, was charged with Aggravated Battery with a Firearm and Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm and Brennan A. Gibbs, 21, of Marion, was charged with Mob Action for his involvement in the initial altercation. Both were located and arrested with assistance from the Harrisburg Police Department and the Saline County Sheriff’s Department.
Carbondale Police Officers also arrested Reuben A. Gardet Jr., 37, of Carbondale for his involvement in the initial altercation. Gardet was charged with Mob Action. Gardet was incarcerated in the Jackson County Jail pending a detention hearing.
Gibbs is also currently on parole from the Illinois Department of Corrections and was incarcerated in the Saline County Jail pending a detention hearing.
The juvenile was approved for detention and later incarcerated in a Juvenile Detention Facility. The juvenile’s name will not be released as part of the Juvenile Justice Act.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the police department at the numbers listed below.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the City of Carbondale Police Department at (618) 549-2121. You may also call the Carbondale/SIU Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (618) 549-COPS (2677) or the Murphysboro/Jackson County anonymous tip line at (618) 687-COPS (2677). Anonymous tips may also be made by selecting the “Crime Stoppers” tab on this website’s main page. Please help yourself and your county, its communities, and the university campus by using these numbers if you witness or have any information about a crime. Cash rewards for information that leads to an arrest are also made anonymously. Remember, crime doesn’t pay, but Crime Stoppers does! For more information about Crime Stoppers, please follow the QR Code.
The mission of the Carbondale Police Department is to work in partnership with our community to preserve life, protect human rights, protect property and improve quality of life by providing police service to all in a fair, sensitive, and professional manner.