Woman Wanted In Hammer Attack Shot After Ramming Patrol Car

RICHMOND, TX — A woman was shot and wounded Sunday night after she hit a patrol car and tried to run over a sheriff’s deputy during a high-speed chase. Deputies were called to a home in Booth, Texas at about 10:20 p.m. for an aggravated assault.

Witnesses told deputies that the suspect attacked another woman with a hammer, hitting her in the forehead, and fled the scene.

Deputies spotted her car in the 2700 block of Crabb River Road and tried to pull her over, but she refused to stop and led police in a chase that speeds of over 100 miles per hour.

Police laid down spike strips at the Grand Parkway and West Belfort Road when she began driving on the wrong side of the road to avoid officers.

The spikes disabled the woman’s car, but according to police, she kept driving and hit a patrol car, officials said.

Police said the woman ignored commands to stop, and when she backed up and tried to hit a sheriff’s deputy with her car, the deputy fired twice at her car hitting the woman once in the chest.

The woman was treated for the gunshot wound and released into police custody. She is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault on a peace officer, and felony evading, officials said.

The woman she is accused of attacking with a hammer was also treated at an area hospital and released, police said.

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