A Utah woman was hospitalized after she reportedly pointed a gun at Syracuse police officers Tuesday, who shot and wounded her.
Before the shooting, a man reported to police at about 10 p.m. Tuesday that his “estranged” mother was sending “threatening text messages” and making “suicidal and homicidal comments,” police said.
When officers arrived at the scene near 1900 West and 2350 South, the 52-year-old woman was inside a vehicle, holding a handgun and threatening suicide.
In a news release, police said that officers from several agencies tried to negotiate with her for “several minutes,” but at some point, she “moved the weapon in an aggressive manner and pointed it at the officers.”
Officers then fired their guns, and the woman was struck by “some of the rounds,” police said. She was taken to a hospital, police said, but her condition was not released as of Wednesday afternoon.
Police did not say how many officers fired their guns, how many rounds they fired, or how many times the woman was struck. Her name has not been released.
On Tuesday night, Syracuse police initially reported that the woman had fired her gun at officers. On Wednesday morning, the department reported that “some details were misrepresented as fact” on Tuesday, “primarily that the woman fired at the officers.” No officers were injured.
The shooting remains under investigation. It marked the 10th police shooting in Utah so far this year, according to a database maintained by The Salt Lake Tribune.
Scott D. Pierce