Police say officers fatally shot a woman who first fired at them while sitting in the back of a patrol car in Atlanta.
Major Darin Schierbaum said police were investigating a call about a stolen car Thursday afternoon when the two officers saw a woman sitting inside the vehicle in a parking deck. Schierbaum says the woman was taken into custody and placed in a patrol car.
He said that at one point she fired at least two shots at the officers, and they returned fire, critically wounding her. He says she was brought to a hospital where she died.
Schierbaum says it’s unclear how the woman was able to fire a gun while in the patrol car and that police are investigating whether she had been handcuffed. Her identity wasn’t released. Department spokesman Greg Lyon says the two officers weren’t injured.
Schierbaum says police are looking for surveillance footage from the surrounding area. Lyon said the shooting happened outside a downtown Atlanta precinct.
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