NewsDecember 7, 2015
Woman killed by police after shooting neighbor 3 times
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. -- A 61-year-old St. Louis County woman is dead after firing shots at police officers who entered her home after she shot a neighbor three times. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Sheilah Huck had been acting irrationally outside her home Saturday before shooting the other woman who was loading her two children into a car...
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ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. -- A 61-year-old St. Louis County woman is dead after firing shots at police officers who entered her home after she shot a neighbor three times.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Sheilah Huck had been acting irrationally outside her home Saturday before shooting the other woman who was loading her two children into a car.
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Police haven't identified the 35-year-old neighbor, who is expected to survive.
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said members of a tactical operations unit entered Huck's home at 4:20 p.m. after she didn't respond to officers. He said Huck fired three rounds at police with a handgun from 8 to 10 feet away, and two of the officers returned fire and killed her.
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