The Phoenix police video shows Larisa Boulais shooting officers in the courtyard

Phoenix Police released a video on Monday showing the negotiation and arrest of a woman who they said she shot at officers while helping a couple tend their gardens because trees and bushes overgrown on March 8 were.

At around 2 p.m., officers were in a house near 47th Avenue and Greenway Road with a representative from the city’s neighborhood department and at least four volunteers to clean up a due yard, police said.

A community action officer from the Cactus Park Precinct spoke to the man who owned the house when Larisa Boulais, 51, came out of the house with a gun onto the terrace, police said.

The homeowner knew the group was coming, but police said it was not clear if Boulais, who police said lived in the apartment, knew.

Police released an edited video with additional information about what the officers said.

The police video shows the homeowner walking towards Boulais while the officer asks, “What is she exactly there? What is it? I can’t tell if it’s a gun or not.”

A shot can be heard as the man tries to address Boulais on the terrace, as videos show. The officer then yells at the man to get out of the way and “come back” from the house.

Boulais then yells something about “police” and “shooting” which is difficult to understand as the man walks back and begs the officer, “please don’t shoot them” several times. Police said Boulais went back inside and could get the man to safety.

The video then shows an officer walking to the front of the house near the garage, where police said they had left the house a second time, still armed with a gun. The police yelled at her to “come back in” and then shoot her, but she was not beaten, the police said.

The surveillance video from the house shows Boulais leaving the front of the house with a gun and then returning to the house after the police shot her. She keeps walking around the house with a gun, video shows.

Officers, family negotiate with Boulais over loudspeaker

Within eight hours, a special unit police tried to get Boulais to leave the house through negotiations and a loudspeaker, the police said.

“Larisa, I told you we would not give up on you,” said an official in the video. “Try to get on that phone and answer it so we can give you instructions on how to get out safely. We’ll stay on the phone and help you out of the house, but you’ll have to take the call.”

A family member also asked Boulais to come into the garage and talk to him on the security camera or call him on the phone and listen to what the officers say.

“Nobody is trying to hurt you and there is no need for anyone to be hurt,” said the man in the video. “Would you please hear for me what you have to say … please put your gun down, don’t have your gun near you when you’re doing something.”

At around 4 p.m., police used gas and rubber bullets to trick them into leaving the house, said Sgt. Ann Justus, a spokeswoman for the Phoenix Police Department. Police said Boulais stayed in the house for several hours and refused to leave the house.

After about 8 hours, the police arrested Boulais in a bedroom

At around 10 p.m., police at the residence confronted Boulais in the bedroom.

Four police officers throw light on Boulais and ask them to show them their hands and “come out now”. At least one officer is armed with a rubber bullet weapon. An officer fires an object, but it is unclear in the video what the object is or if it hits Boulais.

The video shows four officers approaching and picking Boulais off the floor in a room while she yells at them. She was taken to the hospital to be treated for injuries from rubber bullets and gas. She was then released and arrested on suspicion of a major attack on an officer, a major assault, gun injury and exposure, police said.

Police found Boulais’ pistol in the residence, the police said. No officers or other parishioners were injured, Jupiter said.

The 35-year-old policewoman who shot her has worked for the Phoenix Police Department for six years. The incident is being investigated internally and externally and, as usual, will be examined by the Maricopa County Public Prosecutor’s Office, said Justus.

As of 2019, the Phoenix Police Department has been producing videos of police shootouts summaries that include some footage from body cameras, emergency calls, and a narration of the events that led to the shootings.

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