1PHILADELPHIA, PA – A 35-year-old woman remains in critical condition after she was shot multiple times by police early Sunday morning in an armed confrontation in North Philadelphia.

The shooting occurred around 4:11 a.m. near the 900 block of West Erie Avenue in the city’s 25th Police District.

Officers were responding to a report of a person with a gun when they found the woman holding a firearm to her head.

Officers order suspect to drop weapon

Police said officers issued repeated commands for the woman to drop the gun, but she refused. One officer deployed a Taser, striking her, though it appeared to have no effect. Moments later, the woman ran across Erie Avenue and pointed the weapon toward the officers.

Two officers then fired their duty weapons, hitting her multiple times. S

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