Dec 14, 2016
Deresha Armstrong, 26, was fatally shot Thursday during a confrontation first with a homeowner, then with a deputy.
Thomas Miller, 61, owner of an auto paint shop on Mission Road said he came face to face with an armed woman and the two fired shots at each other. Miller was wounded in the exchange.
The sheriff's office said Sgt. Vernon Brown arrived in the area a short time later and shot Armstrong. A gun was found next to her body.
Court records show Armstrong plead no contest to a concealed weapons charge in February, but was not adjudicated guilty.
This was the second time officer Brown has been involved in a shooting. In 1997, he was cleared in the shooting of a teenager wanted in a car theft.
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