Testimony at a public hearing Thursday offered differing accounts of whether woman was fatally shot before or after fire was extinguished.
Firefighters and police officers testifying Thursday at a public hearing gave differing accounts over whether a fire had been extinguished before an officer fatally shot a woman who had locked herself inside an apartment unit.
She was hit in the back of the head with three hard, plastic projectiles from an ARWEN gun fired by Kirkwood. She died four days later from blunt-force head injuries after being removed from life support. After spending more than an hour waiting out Rauch in the hopes she would come out of the unit on her own, officers changed their approach because of the fire. They opened the door and crossed the threshold into the suite, with firefighters directly behind them to extinguish the fire.
“I was in the act of backing away at that point when I heard the shots,” Falkiner said. He had been instructed to back out when the fire was extinguished, he said. Const. Steven Reichert, who was standing directly behind Kirkwood at the time of the shooting, testified he continued to see flames after firefighters backed out and had stopped dousing the fire.
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