Lakewood Police Agent Ashley Ferris was shot and wounded at the end of December after engaging in a gunfight with an armed suspect who was linked to a multi-city shooting spree at Denver metro tattoo shops.
“There was a tattoo shop to the north of me that I thought he could be headed towards,” Ferris said. “Sure enough, he walked up to me.” Ferris said she approached the suspect and had a short conversation. She asked him where he was coming from, and he responded by saying the bank. At the time Ferris said she was unaware that there were shots fired at a nearby bank just moments before.
Ferris said she believes the gunman shot her first. She remembered being paralyzed in one leg as she fell backward. She had already retrieved her gun and started to return fire.As she was lying on the ground Ferris said she was confident she accurately stopped the threat. Moments later her fellow officers, who she refers to as friends, arrived on scene. One picked her up and loaded her into his squad car and rushed her to the hospital. She recalled being carried into the hospital on his back.
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