WINTER PARK, Fla. – A Winter Park police officer shot a woman Sunday morning after she pointed a gun at the officer, officials said.
The shooting happened after police responded at 8:27 a.m. to a well-being check on Bobbie Sapp, 46, who had been threatening to commit suicide by cop at 1313 Buckingham Road, according to the Winter Park Police Department.
Officers were told that the woman had multiple firearms inside her home.
Winter Park police Sgt. Garvin McComey said officers tried to talk with the woman, who started pointing a gun at one officer. Officers tried to subdue the woman with a Taser, but she continued to point the weapon, police said.
The officer shot her in the right shoulder after she did not respond to several commands to put the gun down, he said.
The woman was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, McComey said.
Police said Sapp made several comments while she was being transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center. She told first responders that she wanted to go to Florida Hospital instead of ORMC, she said she wasn't taking any drugs and she apologized, according to the report.
No one else was hurt.
The officer will be on paid administrative leave, which is standard protocol, while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates the shooting.
Sapp was charged with attempted first-degree murder on a law enforcement officer, assault on a firefighter or EMT, resisting an officer with violence and felony with a weapon.
Winter Park’s Police Department is one of the remaining Central Florida law enforcement agencies without a body camera program, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
At the end of August, the Winter Park City Commission voted against body cameras for its police force, citing the cost of the equipment.
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