The Brief
- Fort Worth police released body camera video showing an officer firing at a woman during a foot chase on July 15. No one was injured.
- Police say the officer fired after the woman reached into her purse, believing she may have been reaching for a gun.
- Officers did not find a gun on the woman, and the department’s Major Case Unit is continuing to investigate the shooting.
FORT WORTH, Texas – Fort Worth police have released body camera video after an officer fired a shot at a woman last week. No one was injured in the July 15 incident near Everman Parkway and Oak Grove Road.
What we know:
Fort Worth police were responding to calls about a woman firing a gun but did not find a gun on the woman they shot at. Body camera footage also captures one officer asking another, “Why’d you shoot?”
The woman was not injured but has been charged with multiple alleged crimes.
Officer fires at woman during foot chase
Body camera footage shows a Fort Worth police officer shooting at, and arresting, 34-year-old Leandra Johnson after she appears to run away from officers investigating reports that she had fired a gun in her neighborhood on July 15.…