December 25, 2024
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Woman, 26, in hospital after being shot by police in Sanford

SANFORD – A 26-year-old woman was hospitalized Friday after being involved in a shooting with Sanford police.

Jillian Christensen Daniels was shot during the course of her arrest at about 4:15 a.m. on an outstanding warrant for violating probation in connection with three armed robberies in Hillsboro County, N.H., according to Sanford police.

Daniels was taken to Maine Medical Center in Portland, where she was under police guard, police said. A hospital spokesman said she was in satisfactory condition.

Daniels was wanted on a warrant charging her with violating probation that she had received in a plea agreement with prosecutors involving three convenience store robberies in Manchester, N.H., in 2004, said Lt. Bill Barry of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

The shooting occurred at Christensen’s grandmother’s house on Sunset Road, where she was staying, according to Sanford police Maj. Gordon Littlefield. Daniels’ husband, Samuel Daniels, 23, was arrested on warrants from Grafton County, N.H., charging him with probation violation stemming from convictions for forgery and heroin possession, police said.

Jillian Daniels allegedly made statements to police crisis negotiators that she was armed with a firearm and intended to either commit suicide or attempt “suicide-by-cop” by using deadly force against police, Littlefield said.

Littlefield declined to release other details, such as how many rounds were fired or the location of her injuries. Two Sanford police officers have been placed on temporary administrative leave pending completion of an investigation.

The Attorney General’s Office has been dispatched to investigate a use of deadly force by a law enforcement officer, as the law requires.


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