Wendy Lawrence, 45, was shot and killed by a state trooper Monday night. She was shot four times and died from a gunshot wound to her chest. She was pulled over by a state trooper for driving erratically, and drove away from the officer after giving him a non-driver’s license ID. The circumstances surrounding her death are being investigated, according to Fox News.
Lawrence’s car she was driving when she was killed by the state trooper. 9/30/13 Photo Credit: MyFoxBoston.com
“She never hated police. She was always afraid of police, deathly scared,” Gary Boulac, Lawrence’s ex-husband, told the paper “If a cop started to talk to her, she’d start shaking.” Boulac lives around the corner from the scene of the shooting.
Even though Lawrence had trouble with the law, the number of times she was shot seems excessive. New information is still coming out about this situation, but so far it appears as if the state trooper shot Lawrence even though she was defenseless. It is possible she had something to hide, but there are no articles that say she tried to attack the trooper. Witnesses for the Union Leader described hearing as many as 10 shots go through Lawrence’s car. Her death is currently being reviewed as a homicide.
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