Indiana Police: Woman allegedly shoots self in police vehicle
GAS CITY, Ind. Dec 22 2020 Authorities in Indiana were investigating the death of a 32-year-old woman who allegedly shot herself while sitting in a police vehicle during a crash investigation.
Indiana State Police said Sunday that Amanda Elbert of Alexandria, Indiana, was not in custody and used a gun that was in her purse.
Elbert was in a car that crashed Saturday into a utility pole near Gas City, north of Muncie.
The car’s driver allegedly fled before police arrived.
Elbert was allowed to sit in the front passenger seat of a police vehicle to keep warm.
As officers were conducting an inventory of the crashed car, they heard a gunshot.
Elbert was pronounced dead at the scene. The death investigation came at the request of the Grant County Sheriff’s Department.
