Bodycam videos of Connecticut police officers fatally shooting an armed woman who was threatening a man with a gun were released Tuesday by state officials.
Connecticut State Police troopers fatally shot Amanda Williams, 39, outside a home in Bozrah on Saturday night as she wielded a handgun, the state’s Inspector General wrote in a short report.
Several troopers responded to a report of a domestic disturbance around 7:30 p.m. in the west Norwich suburb. They approached the scene on Gifford Lane discretely, as the 911 caller said Williams had a gun.
Troopers Brett Cook and Noah Blanchette captured the scene on their body-worn cameras. When they got within sight of Williams, both men took cover behind different trees, separated from Williams by a grassy clearing.
Multiple troopers ordered Williams to drop her weapon, but she refused. At one point she told the cops, “How about f–k you, how about that?”
“You know what? I’m not going to jail,” she said a few seconds later in the tense standoff.
Another trooper, Zachary Cash, fired several “non-lethal pepper ball rounds, which appeared to be ineffective,” Inspector General Eliot Prescott wrote in his report. After those shots, Williams can be heard on the bodycam footage repeating “Do it. Do it.”
Blanchette then fired two shots from his rifle, and Cook fired one shot from his handgun. Investigators said it was not immediately clear which bullet killed Williams.
When cops reached Williams’ body, the found her holding a .380-caliber Ruger handgun.
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