Traffic is shut down on Interstate 65 in Autauga County after a chase involving a woman wanted in a shooting in Texas, officials said.
The woman is now in custody.
ALEA State Trooper Lt. Jeremy Burkett confirmed the standoff was underway. It ended with the woman’s arrest
District Attorney CJ Robinson Shots said spike strips were used to stop the suspect’s car. A child was initially believed to have been in the car with the suspect, Robinson said, but once the standoff ended, they learned there was no child in the vehicle.
The ordeal began in Alabama at 12:19 p.m. Friday near the 192 mile marker.
The northbound traffic on I-65 was being diverted at Exit 186.
According to Bellaire police in Texas, dispatchers received a 911 call at 2:30 a.m. Friday on a report of a woman in a Mercedes SUV following a group of individuals in a Ford truck.
The occupants of the Ford reported that the female suspect was the ex-girlfriend of a passenger and was believed to be armed with a pistol.
The Ford truck arrived in front of the Bellaire Police Department at 5110 Jessamine in the apparent hopes of avoiding a confrontation with the female suspect, police officials there said.
As two Bellaire police officers in marked patrol cars arrived to meet with the occupants of the Ford, the female suspect circled around to the passenger side of the truck and fired several shots at the front seat passenger.
A Bellaire police officer fired at the suspect vehicle as the suspect again circled around the truck. The suspect then sped away westbound on Jessamine towards Chimney Rock.
Officers rendered medical aid to the victim in the Ford truck who was struck several times. He was then transported to Ben Taub Hospital in serious condition.
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