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Philadelphia’s District Attorney’s Office has approved two arrest warrants following Saturday night’s deadly shooting. One man, 18-year-old Quran Garner, is in police custody. The other unnamed person is not.

According to Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore, the shooting started after two men got into an altercation after passing each other while walking down the street. Their physical scuffle escalated into gunfire.

“As words are exchanged, then Gregory Jackson takes a swing at Micah Towns, striking him in the face. It’s at that point that the other male we have an arrest warrant for begins in the melee,” Pescatore said Monday afternoon. “At that point Micah Towns is head thrown against a window while they are beating on him.”

She said that’s when Jackson pulled out a gun, which he had a permit to carry. Towns also had a permit to carry a gun, which he also got out.

Pescatore said Jackson opened fire on Towns. Towns returned fire, killing Jackson.

It’s at that point Garner allegedly started firing towards where the fight was happening, Pescatore said. Garner was then shot by police who had arrived on the scene, hitting him in the hand.

Garner was taken to the hospital for treatment and that’s where he was charged with two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of aggravated assault on law enforcement officers.

Pescatore described a chaotic scene following the gunfire along the crowded section of South St. Investigators are still processing lots of video from police body cams and local businesses surveillance cameras.

“It is approximately a two block scene. It starts at one end of South Street and works its way down to South and American Street,” she said. “Detectives have worked tirelessly since Saturday night, since this job came in, along with ATF and other law enforcement agencies trying to figure out what exactly happened. There is numerous video, as you can imagine. There are numerous cameras on that two block radius.”

Despite three deaths, no murder charges have yet been filed.

Earlier Monday, District Attorney Larry Krasner says investigators are still “very active” at the South St. scene. He said they’re learning new information hour by hour on exactly what happened in the shooting that left 12 injured and three dead in the heart of the commercial corridor.

Krasner said prosecutors have received good help from residents and businesses in the area.

“I also want to thank business owners and local residents who have come forward to assist our justice partners. [They’ve] come forward with video, come forward with information, come forward with a willingness to admit people to their premises so that evidence could be gathered without wasting time,” he said. “I want to thank them for encouraging others who witnessed this terrible shooting to come forward as well and provide their information.”