BLACKSBURG, S.C. (AP) - A coroner says police officers fatally shot a South Carolina woman after she pointed a gun with a laser targeting system at one of the officers.
Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler says 41-year-old Stephanie Owens called 911 from her Blacksburg home early Sunday morning asking for help.
Fowler says that when Cherokee County sheriff's deputies arrived, Owens had a gun and threatened to shoot them.
The coroner said in a statement that deputies tried several times to get Owens to drop the gun. But he says that about 55 minutes after she called 911, Owens pointed the laser target at a deputy, and four of the five officers at the scene fired on her.
Fowler says Owens died two hours later.
The State Law Enforcement Division is investigating.
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