Deputy shot Windham woman after she refused orders, body cam video shows

A still image from the body cam footage released by the Garrettsville Police Department show the scene moments before a Portage County deputy shot and killed a woman he says was armed. Image via Garrettsville Police Department

Deputy shot Windham woman after she refused orders, body cam video shows

- Owen MacMillan

At 9:32 a.m. on May 14, a Garrettsville police officer and a Portage County sheriff’s deputy responded to a 911 call about an armed woman trying to break into her neighbor’s house in Windham Township. 

Two minutes and 15 gunshots later, 66-year-old Cora Baughman was lying on the ground, shot twice through the chest and at least once in the legs by the deputy.

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