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Article: Woman shot by police was armed only with air pistol.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2003
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Byline: DAWN THOMPSON
A WOMAN shot by police after she refused to drop her 'gun' was only carrying an air pistol, it was claimed yesterday.
Armed officers arrived at the remote cottage after the woman made a 999 call claiming to have shot her mother.
The 31-year-old allegedly brandished a handgun, ignoring repeated requests to drop it, and was shot once in the stomach by a police marksman.
But a friend of the woman last night claimed he had already told officers she was alone in the cottage - and that she was armed with nothing more dangerous than an air pistol.
Tony Carruthers, who owns the building where the shooting took ...