By Renee Hickman

CHICAGO (Reuters) -A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that described the shooting as an act of self-defense.

Marimar Martinez, 30, was charged on October 5 with assaulting a federal officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon after she followed a vehicle driven by border patrol agents with her car in the Brighton Park neighborhood on Chicago’s Southwest Side.

The vehicles made contact, and a federal agent fired their weapon at Martinez, a U.S. citizen, according to a criminal complaint.

DHS said Martinez was armed with a gun, but Martinez’

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