Cherokee County officer-involved shooting leaves one injured

MGN

A woman was shot by a Cherokee County, North Carolina deputy after their sheriff says she pointed a gun at him.

Cherokee County Sheriff Chris Wood says that they received a call for a welfare check on school aged children at a home on Ferguson Road in Peachtree.

They were further advised that a woman, later identified as 41-year-old Trista Hughes, was pointing a gun at her girlfriend.

When a deputy arrived on scene, Sheriff Wood says he encountered Hughes in a pickup truck, and that she pointed a handgun at him.

The sheriff says that the deputy shot at Hughes multiple times, striking her once in the chest.

She suffered non-life threatening injuries.

She was airlifted to Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, where the sheriff said Hughes attempted to escape the hospital and was arrested by Chattanooga Police.

Sheriff Wood says that no one else was injured in this incident, and all the kids involved have been attended to.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation will be conducting their own investigation of this incident.

Sheriff Wood says Hughes will be charged with assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm, and that more charges may be forthcoming.