A Norwood Police officer shot a gun-wielding girl within the car parking zone of a storage enterprise there Friday afternoon, police stated.
“We hope that she’s going to be ok. We also are tending to the officers who are present at the scene to make sure that they’re going to be ok,” Norwood Police Chief William Brooks stated at a press convention he held at round 3 p.m. exterior the Extra Space Storage location on Morse Street the place the tense interplay befell simply an hour or so beforehand.
The unnamed girl, who Brooks described as “middle-aged” and who “had recently been living in Norwood,” was nonetheless alive on the time Brooks spoke with the media.
As Brooks instructed it, the girl was in some type of interplay contained in the storage enterprise with one other man when she drew a gun on him after which the person known as 911 slightly earlier than 1 p.m. The girl exited the constructing and walked into the car parking zone as she held the gun to her personal head, which is how Brooks — who stated he was on scene all through the incident — stated officers discovered her upon arrival.
The responding police arrange a fringe across the car parking zone, Brooks stated, to ensure no matter occurred wouldn’t depart the world. Then an officer negotiated with the girl for some 45 minutes as Brooks stated the girl alternately pointed the gun at herself and on the officers.
While she purportedly circled the lot all through the ordeal, Brooks stated she finally went straight on the officers who had been assembled on the street and at that time one unidentified officer fired a single bullet at her, hitting her in her midsection.
Police carried out first support on the scene as they known as for an ambulance. She would finally be flown to a Boston Hospital.
The incident is being investigated by Norwood Police in addition to State Police troopers assigned to the Norfolk District Attorney’s workplace, Brooks stated.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”