WATCH: Woman Rams Santa Cruz Deputy With Patrol Car, Gets Shot

By Tactical-Life

Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office deputies in California shot a woman who escaped from custody and rammed a deputy with a patrol car. Body cam footage of the incident can be seen above.

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The Lead-Up

A SCSO press release says that on the morning of May 18, deputies were patrolling a neighborhood when they spotted two cars parked in a turnout at the end of a road. One of the cars, a Honda, had been reported stolen out of San Jose. Standing in between the two cars were 27-year-old Jessica Lowe and another unidentified man.

Deputies placed Lowe and the man in handcuffs and put them in two separate patrol cars. Deputy August Waltrip started searching the stolen Honda while another deputy interviewed the man in the back of the patrol car.

Suspect Rams Officer

While this was going on, Lowe “slipped out” of her handcuffs, according to the presser. She then reached through the window next to her and opened the door of the patrol car she was being held in.

Instead of bolting from the scene, Lowe got into the driver’s seat of the …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life