Nueva Britabla, Connecticut – A Connecticut woman was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison for shooting a gun several times in the lobby of a police department, where an officer shot, but the bulletproof glass prevented someone from being hurt.
Suzanne Laprise entered the Bristol Police Department in October 2023, under the influence of alcohol and carrying a 9 mm gun, police said.
She shot three shots to the reception windows and two more inside, which are official were standing while trying to talk to her.
An officer shot two shots to Laprise from behind the door, but their glass windows were also bulletproof, police said. After Laprise lowered his gun, the officers rushed to the lobby, shot him with a taser and touched her in custody.
Laprise, or near Plainville, appeared with letters in the Superior Court of New Brittany on Tuesday, when a judge imposed the prison sentence that he accepted when he declared himself guilty of assault attempts in the first degree in February. Initially she was accused of murder attempt and other crimes.
Neinder Laprise or any police officer spoke in the sentence.
“She is a 53 -year -old woman without a previous record who had many stressors in her life,” said his public defender, Christopher Eddy, in a telephone interview after the Court’s hearing. “He had financial stress. He had stress on mental health. He has a disabled son. And he wanted to commit suicide that night, and he is lucky that Bristol’s police were as professional in how they asked for it.”
The shooting came a year after two Bristol police officers were shot dead in an ambush while responding to a call.
State Inspector Robert Devlin Jr. investigated the shooting that involved Laprise and issued a report that included a video of the surveillance cameras of the police department and the chambers of the officers. Devlin ruled that the officer who shot Laprise was justified.
Police said Laprise used a weapon that belonged to her boyfriend at that time, who was a police officer retired from New York City.
