A police officer on Thursday shot and wounded a woman after a fight in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa, drawing protesters in a city that has seen civil unrest earlier this year over the killing of a black teen by a cop.
Officers responded to the 7900 Harwood Avenue after a caller reported the woman was violently attacking another woman at around 9.15pm.
The alleged attacker was located the area of Underwood and Harmonee avenues, and an 'altercation' led an officer to shoot the woman, according to authorities.
Police close roads near Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, after an officer shot and wounded a woman following a fight on Thursday night
The woman was taken to the hospital for medical treatment. There was no immediate word on her condition on Friday.
Jennifer Enright, who lives near the shooting scene, said she was talking to her mother around 9.30pm when she heard gunshots 'clear as day.' She then saw police lights from her window, the Journal Sentinel reported.
'The sirens weren't stopping. They kept coming,' she said. 'It was just crazy to hear.'
The Wauwatosa Common Council earlier this year voted to provide every officer with a body camera by the end of the year, but a police sergeant told DailyMail.com she was not sure the officers who responded to the incident were equipped with the devices, and whether the shooting was recorded.
The shooting drew about 30 protesters to the area. Some were yelling profanities at officers and demanding answers from Wauwatosa Police Chief Barry Weber. The demonstrators were said to disperse at around 1am.
Wauwatosa was the site of protests and calls for changes to policing after Officer Joseph Mensah shot and killed Alvin Cole, a black 17-year-old, after he fled from police following a disturbance inside a mall in February.
A group of protesters come face-to-face with police officers, yelling and cursing at them, after Thursday's shooting in Wauwatosa
Mensah, who also is black, fatally shot three men in the last five years. Those shootings were ruled justified self-defense by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office. Mensah agreed in November to resign from the force.
Matt Dahlstrom was at the scene of the shooting, where officers from a number of area agencies assisted Wauwatosa police, including the Milwaukee County Sheriff´s Office and Wisconsin State Patrol.
'It's horrible. It is. It's absolutely horrible. It's scary. I have kids. I teach so I know tons of kids in the community. It supposed to be a safe community. And, now we're just seeing so much going on. Flat out it´s just scary,' Dahlstrom told WITI-TV.
The Wauwatosa Police Department has requested the Milwaukee Area Investigative Team to investigate the officer-involved shooting.
