An unnamed woman has been killed by police after she allegedly opened fire on them while sitting in the back of a cop car near the Fulton County Courthouse in downtown Atlanta on Thursday

 

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A woman is dead after police said she opened fire in the back of a police cruiser early Thursday evening.
 
The incident happened just after 5 p.m. in front of the Atlanta police precinct near Underground Atlanta on Pryor Street.
 
Channel 2's Richard Elliot was around the corner at the Fulton County Courthouse reporting on the re-sentencing of three APS educators when he saw officers running toward the scene.
 
Atlanta police said officers took the woman into custody after finding her in a vehicle that was reported stolen. A police source said when officers detained the woman, they found drugs and learned she had a warrant.
 
“Shortly after that, that individual opened fire with a handgun or with a weapon firing at least twice at the officers. The officers retreated and opened fire,” said Maj. Darin Schierbaum with the Atlanta Police Department.
 
"They came out of the parking deck because they were searching the wrong place, guns drawn. Like I said, about 10 of them, to the back of the police car. At the police car they found the (woman) that was shot," a witness told Elliot.
 
The patrol car’s back windshield had a gaping hole from the gunshot while officers investigated the shooting.http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/police-shots-fired-near-fulton-county-courthouse/nk6j7/

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