Woman fatally shot in back of Atlanta police car

[kent]

www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/woman-fatally-shot-in-back-of-atlanta-police-car-identified/ar-BBiZMZF

ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities on Friday released the name of a woman who was fatally shot when officers say she fired at them from the back of a patrol car in downtown Atlanta.

The Fulton County medical examiner's office on Friday identified the woman as 25-year-old Alexia Christian. Information on her hometown was not immediately available.

Two officers were investigating a call about a stolen car Thursday afternoon when they saw a woman sitting inside the vehicle in a parking deck, Major Darin Schierbaum said.

Police say officers fatally shot a woman who first fired at them while sitting in the back of a patrol car in Atlanta. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)  © Provided by Associated Press Police say officers fatally shot a woman who first fired at them while sitting in the back of a patrol car in Atlanta. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) They took the woman into custody and put her in a patrol car. At one point, she fired at least two shots at the officers, he said. The officers returned fire, critically wounding her, and she later died at a hospital, he said.

Schierbaum said it's unclear how the woman was able to fire a gun while in the patrol car.....

[Tennesseer]

"However, Channel 2 reported that Christian was handcuffed before she was placed in the vehicle."


Woman killed in Atlanta police shootout had long arrest record

It will be interesting to learn whether she was or was not handcuffed and why she was not frisked for weapons (if she actually had one).

[billisonboard]

Schierbaum said it's unclear how the woman was able to fire a gun while in the patrol car ... The two officers weren't injured ...

It is also unclear how the woman missed.

[OldCoyote]

www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/woman-fatally-shot-in-back-of-atlanta-police-car-identified/ar-BBiZMZF 

If she shot from the backseat, handcuffed,  Why is there NO glass on the trunk of the car?

[kent]

May 2, 2015 19:09:31 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/woman-fatally-shot-in-back-of-atlanta-police-car-identified/ar-BBiZMZF 

If she shot from the backseat, handcuffed,  Why is there NO glass on the trunk of the car?

Good point.  Also, if it's not an optical illusion, it kind of looks like the rear window glass is somewhat "pushed in" toward the inside of the car.  Could she have been shot by officers outside and behind the car?  Hmmmmm

[EVT1]

I read it as officers had to fire into the car.  Reports vary- but the question is simple- if the woman was handcuffed then procedure would have required her to be frisked for weapons.

It is easily possible for a handcuffed person that is armed to shoot at the police.

[EVT1]

Reminds me of a story where a man was arrested, searched, taken in for questioning and wound up dead from suicide and people did not believe it until the video was released- the guy still had a .45 on him.  He thought he killed a cop.

Not going to post the video- but this kind of thing happens.

www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/interrogate.asp

[ktunes]

i was watching on the news as it unfolded...the cops did not frisk her and she was able to slip one of her hands out of the cuffs...it turns out the atl pd had arrested her 7 previous times and she slipped the cuffs once before...she also had outstanding warrants in other states for violent crimes...

it was on the news because they thought this was an active shooter situation...it was in the same area that a few years back an inmate overpowered a guard and killed several people as he escaped...

[EVT1]

Don't even have to slip the cuffs off- it is quite easy to transition hands behind your back into the front- don't ask me how I know this

[ktunes]

don't ask me how I know this

we won't...