ROYAL PALM BEACH — A Palm Seashore County sheriff’s deputy shot a woman within the leg early Sunday throughout a traffic stop in Royal Palm Seashore after deputies say she tried to flee in a stolen pickup truck.
The sheriff’s workplace stated deputies had stopped the stolen U-Haul pickup on the 200 block of Parkwood Drive about 4 a.m. As they had been detaining a person driving the truck, the feminine passenger “slid into the driving force’s seat and fled the scene,” based on a sheriff’s workplace information launch.
The woman, later recognized as Ginger Taylor, 31, was discovered with the truck about an hour later on the close by Royal Inn Resort on Royal Palm Seashore Boulevard. There, deputies say Taylor struck a deputy with the automobile as she tried to flee as soon as extra.
The deputy fired on the automobile, authorities stated. Taylor drove north however crashed 7 miles away, placing the fence of a home on the intersection of Royal Seashore Seashore and Persimmon boulevards, based on the information launch.
Taylor was arrested whereas fleeing on foot and was taken to a hospital to be handled for the gunshot wound. She was later booked into the Palm Seashore County Jail on fees of aggravated battery on a regulation enforcement officer, reckless fleeing and eluding, aggravated fleeing and eluding, reckless driving and resisting with violence.
The deputy was handled on the scene for minor accidents.
The person driving the van, recognized as James Boswell, 27, was arrested in reference to driving the stolen U-Haul. He is also going through fees on an out-of-state warrant, the sheriff’s workplace stated late Sunday.
The incident is being investigated by the Florida Division of Regulation Enforcement, with help from the sheriff’s workplace and the State Lawyer’s Workplace. The deputy has been positioned on administrative depart, a typical transfer whereas deputy-involved shootings are investigated.
The sheriff’s workplace didn’t launch the identify of the deputy Sunday.
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