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Woman in body armor shoots up neighborhood, police in high speed chase..taken alive?

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Jennifer Clouse was standing in her yard Friday in her quiet Hixson neighborhood when she saw a woman quickly drive past her house holding a gun out of the window as if it were a cigarette.

"She was just casually holding a gun, and wearing a baseball hat," said Clouse, who lives on Cloverdale Drive. "It was crazy. ... This is a pretty quiet area."

Clouse said the woman drove past her house, ignoring the stop sign and turning right onto Norcross Drive.

"I saw the gun and said to myself, 'I'm going to go inside,'" Clouse said.

Next, she heard police sirens and watched through windows as multiple police cars chased after the woman down the hill.

From inside her house, Clouse said she heard the scream of sirens throughout her neighborhood.

"Then, all of a sudden, the sirens stopped," she said.

Clouse did not recognize the driver, but the woman arrested for attempted murder, Julia Shields, 45, lived just up the street at 1504 Cloverdale Drive.

Police said Shields, blonde and wearing body armor, raced through the neighborhood, past well-manicured lawns and simple brick houses, firing multiple shots out her window at people and cars.

Chattanooga police officers received a report of shots fired at 1300 Cloverdale and arrived at 3:52 p.m. Friday, according to a news release.

Officers found two people who said they were at a stop sign when a woman pulled up in a dark-colored sedan and fired shots into their vehicle, hitting and disabling the radiator.

Then more calls reported a woman pointing a firearm at people as she passed them in her car, and that she fired at another vehicle in the same area. Police found Shields sitting in her vehicle in the Stuart Heights Baptist Church Parking lot on Hixson Pike, the release stated.

Shields sped away in her car and led officers on a chase down Highway 153 and Hixson Pike, still pointing her firearm at vehicles she passed.

Eventually, officers stopped and arrested Shields at Cloverdale Drive and Koblan Drive, near the spot where the shootings occurred and just blocks from her house. She pointed her firearm at an officer, but was taken into custody without incident or injury, the release stated.

Shields has been charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder, seven counts of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, felony evading arrest and felony reckless endangerment.

Shields is being held at the Hamilton County Jail, and as of Saturday night her bond had not been set. She will appear before General Sessions Judge Gary Starnes on Jan. 5..
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http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2014/dec/28/womshoots-hixsneighborhood/280032/


SHOCKING how police were able to take her alive. It's a good thing she was....wearing body armor.
 
entremet

entremet

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This happens all the time.

The aurora shooter went Rambo and he taken alive. There are examples of this everyday.
 
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SapientWolf

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DragonKnight said:
With the recrnt shooting of the 18 yr old black man and i was "alright. He pointed a gun at cops". Then i read this story.
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I wouldn't have blamed them if they dropped her. Honestly, everyone involved sounds really lucky.

I'm guessing the officers were behind cover instead of a couple of feet away from the barrel of a gun.
 
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this is really surprising, like if she got shot, i'd probably feel it's justified.


if some crazy lady body armored up was doing random driveby's... especially if I was living there... i'd probably want her taken down.

did she surrender or something? Or did the cop do some jason bourne disarming move?

feel like we are missing crucial details between pointing gun at officer, then surrender.
 
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SapientWolf

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GK86 said:
Dat white body armor.
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Statistically speaking, being a woman works out better for you than just being white. Police shooting statistics are notoriously incomplete, but the data I've found shows that 95% of the people shot by police are dudes.

Now, last week, Raymond Leonardo pointed a firearm at officers twice, and pulled the trigger, and did not get plugged. In NYC. Making him the luckiest man on earth.
 
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BPoole

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Would you have been happy if the police killed her instead?

Looking at her charges, she isn't going to be in prison for a very long time
 
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