Authorities have released graphic dash-camera footage showing the moment a North Carolina woman was shot by a sheriff's deputy and a highway patrol trooper after she opened fire on officers.
Tina Renee Medlin died July 11, three days after she was shot by two officers responding to a crash on Interstate 40 in Smithfield, WNCN reports.
In the video, a cop is heard telling officers to back away from Medlin, who is lying in the grass in front of a wrecked SUV.
The officer repeatedly asks Medlin, 50, to show her hands.
"She's got a gun," the officer says. "Get back. Let me see your hands. Get on the ground."
As one deputy approaches Medlin with his gun drawn, she yells that the car doesn't belong to her.
"OK. Get on the ground. I see the weapon," the officer says.
The officer then starts backing away yelling for Medlin not to "draw it" as she fires at the deputies.
Two officers return fire as Medlin runs towards the car. Before she makes it to the vehicle, Medlin collapses to the ground.
Medlin was taken to the hospital for a gunshot wound to the head and arm where she died days later.
The two officers who fired at Medlin were identified as Trooper J.L. Taylor and Johnston County Deputy Taylor Davis. No charges will be filed against them.
Johnston County District Attorney Susan Doyle said in a press release Friday, the same day the dash-camera footage was released, that the officers' use of deadly force "was both reasonable and warranted," The Charlotte Observer reports.