The woman who after she was reportedly suicidal and brandished a gun was identified as Ashlynn Brownell.
The Boulder County Coroner’s Office identified Brownell, 31, as the woman killed when police shot her in the 1500 block of East Third Avenue on Thursday evening, according to Deputy Coroner Kolleen Hancock. Police said they were responding to a call about a suicidal woman after she fired a gun inside a house’s garage and wouldn’t come outside, prompting an hours-long standoff that involved a neighborhood shelter-in-place order.
When she finally came outside, brandishing a gun, a Longmont SWAT officer shot and killed her, according to Longmont police.
Police responded after Brownell reportedly fired a gun in the house’s garage around 4:15 p.m. Police then called for backup and ordered people near East Third Avenue and Great Western Drive to shelter in place around 5:08 p.m., according to a .
Crisis negotiators, including officers trained in the Crisis Intervention Team response for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis, negotiated with the woman for “an extended period of time,” according to a Friday afternoon .
The shelter-in-place order that warned of an armed subject was lifted at 7:15 p.m., according to a .
The officer who shot the woman, who has not been identified, was put on administrative leave pending an investigation by the , a Boulder County District Attorney’s Office team that reviews police shootings. Putting an officer on leave after a shooting is department policy for such incidents, the post states.
