A Kansas deputy was washing his cruiser. Then the shooting started, police say.

A Kansas sheriff’s deputy was washing his cruiser when he heard gunshots and ran into a shootout, officials said.

The Saline County deputy was at a car wash at Broadway and State streets in Salina washing his patrol vehicle on Tuesday afternoon, Salina police Deputy Chief Sean Morton told KSAL. In a Facebook video by the radio station, Morton said that the deputy heard gunshots in a parking lot nearby.

“He immediately ran over, drew his weapon and engaged the individuals that were involved,” Morton said.

One person was arrested, the Salina Journal reported. Another person, described by police as a thin, white man possibly in his 20s, got into a small, silver vehicle driving west toward I-135.

Police scanner traffic indicated that the Kansas Highway Patrol and two Air National Guard Blackhawk helicopters were called to help search for the vehicle, the Salina Post reported.