Police responding to a domestic dispute in Madison, Wisconsin encountered an armed woman – 26-year-old Ashley DiPiazza – holding a gun to her own head. “We did make contact with the woman,” says police chief Mike Koval. “There were extended verbal discussions held, but at one point she presented a threat to those officers. Our officers did in fact engage the woman, and shot her.”
Twin Cities reports that the woman was pointing her weapon at herself when she was shot.
The officers involved were placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, but a district attorney has found that they were justified in using deadly force.
Koval says that domestic disturbance calls are dangerously complex. “There are so many infinite variables when you go to a domestic disturbance.”
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