(AMITE)---Eyewitness News Northshore Bureau Chief Doug Mouton reports that apparently no one was injured in an early-morning shooting incident in Tangipahoa Parish that has led to a combined air and ground search for the suspects.

Tangipahoa Chief Deputy Dennis Pevey told Mouton that apparently two suspects were near a residence in a wooded area of the parish and that an area farmer allegedly fired once to scare off the suspected intruders.

According to Chief Pevey's report to Mouton, one of the suspects may have returned fire once. The chief adds that no one was injured in the shooting incident.

A combined air and ground search -- using deputies, K-9 units and one helicopter -- is underway for the suspects. Radio broadcasts monitored by the Eyewitness News Northshore Bureau indicate that several spent casings were located near the scene where the alleged incident occurred.

Radio voice transmissions indicate that both deputies on the ground and in the air are combing the wooded area in a systematic search in an effort to locate the suspects.

Earlier, Tangipahoa deputies had been searching for two suspects thought to have been involved in a recent home invasion incident in the Roseland area. It is not known at this time if this incident is related.

We will have more details on this story as we receive them here at the Northshore Bureau.

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