Authorities say a woman is under arrest after she fired several gunshots inside a Connecticut police station. Police say the shooting happened just after 10:30 p.m. Thursday when a woman entered the lobby of the Bristol Police Department and fired several shots at the front desk window. The front desk was unoccupied and the gunshots did not penetrate the window’s bullet-resistant glass. Officers responded and tried to negotiate with the woman but she fired more shots and one officer to return fire, police said. The shots were again stopped by bulletproof glass. Police used a stun gun to subdue the woman and she was arrested.
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The shooting happened just after 10:30 p.m. Thursday when a woman entered the lobby of the Bristol Police Department and fired several shots at the front desk window, the departmentOfficers responded and tried to negotiate with the woman, but she fired more shots toward them, again stopped by bulletproof glass, the statement said. One officer shot back at her. She put her gun down and officers used a stun gun to subdue her. She was arrested and taken to a hospital for evaluation.
Bristol police asked anyone without essential police business to avoid the area around the department’s headquarters Friday. The shooting happened almost one year after two Bristol police officers were killed in the line of duty and a third was injured.DeMonte and Hamzy were killed. Iurato, who survived a gunshot wound to his leg, fired a single shot that killed Brutcher.
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