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AMERICUS, GA -- Two people are in the Sumter County Jail today after a week-long drug investigation.  The drug sting ended Monday at in the parking lot of Phoebe Sumter Medical Center when one of the suspects shot herself in the head.

One person was initially taken into custody at Winn-Dixie a few minutes before a woman drove into PSMC’s parking lot, fired three shots, one which grazed the side of her head, then allowed Sheriff’s deputies to take her into custody. She was treated for non-life-threatening wounds, then released to the Sumter County Jail at around 5 p.m., where she remains, according to Sumter County Sheriff Pete Smith.  No law enforcement officers fired guns, the sheriff said.

“There might be some other parties involved,” Smith said. “But we’ve got two people now in custody.”

Sheriff Smith would not identify the people in custody because of the ongoing investigation.

Smith said one bullet exited the woman’s car out of the passenger’s side window and hit a PSMC employee’s car. Another of the three bullets grazed the side of the woman’s head; Smith said he wasn’t sure if the woman intended to shoot herself or not.

When the woman finally stopped her vehicle beside the oxygen tanks near the east side of PSMC near Wendy’s, she was still conscious.

Once the woman stopped her vehicle, she exited peacefully, Smith said.

“She got out of her car and got on the ground,” Smith said. “We saw she’d been shot, but she was conscious the whole time. We made sure she didn’t have any weapons on her. We got her on the gurney, and she just kept saying how sorry she was. We made sure she didn’t have any weapons ”

The bullet grazed the side of her head vertically, Smith said.

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