The Mobile County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that one of its deputies shot and killed a woman during an armed confrontation in Coden on Friday afternoon.
According to Capt. Paul Burch, the encounter occurred after deputies responded to a report of a “disorderly female” at a property on Bellingrath Road near Highway 188 around 3 p.m. Burch said the property is large and shared by several members of the same family, one of whom called police.
“Upon arrival, they talked with the complainant, who told them the female had gone into a camper trailer on the back of the property,” Burch said. “As deputies approached and attempted to establish contact, she began firing at them from a window. One deputy returned fire and she was struck.”
According to Burch, the woman fired multiple shots at the officers, but neither the deputy nor anyone else on the property was injured. The sheriff’s office has not released the name of the deputy or of the deceased.
The investigation into the shooting is ongoing.