YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - A traffic stop escalated Wednesday evening at about 5:15 p.m. near Market Street and Indianola Avenue.

According to a police report,  an officer spotted a man, who was later identified as 26 year-old Dawayne Reid, allegedly speeding and running a red light at the intersection.

When the officer turned on his lights, he says in a report, that Reid quickly pulled into a Rite Aid parking lot and got out of his Silver Acadia.

The officer says he ordered Reid to sit back in the SUV a few times before Reid eventually complied, but according to the report Reid kept reaching toward the floor in front of him.

In the report, the officer said, "I asked him several  times to stop reaching toward the floor in front of him in which he continued to do so and stated he does not have anything illegal."

Reid told the officer, according to the report, that he did not have a valid drivers license. That's when the officer asked Reid to step out of the vehicle. The officer said,  Reid was "hesitant at first but did so."  Then during a routine pat-down, Reid took off on foot.

According to the report, the officer noticed that as Reid ran he kept reaching for his right side. After a brief chase, the officer was able to grab Reid. That's where a struggle took place. The officer said in the report, he noticed a black 9 mm handgun in Reid's hand. The officer was able to grab the gun and slide the gun out of Reid's reach.

At this time, according to the report, a witness to the struggle stopped her vehicle and got out of her car. She then placed the gun safely in the officer's cruiser.

21 News was on the scene shortly after the incident occurred. The witness tells us she placed the gun in the cruiser and then rolled up the windows and locked the doors to make sure it was safe.

"It's a dangerous job. I mean I don't want to see anyone get hurt. If he would have gotten lose from that officer and got that gun back, that officer would have been shot. You don't pull a gun on an officer unless you are going to use it. So it was very scary," said the woman.

Reid later told cops the gun was his wife's gun, however she was not in the vehicle. 

Reid has been charged with disobeying a traffic control, improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle, obstructing official business and resisting arrest.

The full interview with the witness, who we will not identify, can be heard here: