Once officers learned that the woman had purchased the firearm earlier that day, the investigation shifted toward a more important question.

Who had actually fired the shots that triggered multiple 911 calls?

The woman had already agreed to speak after being advised of her rights. Police knew she had recently purchased a 9mm pistol. Now investigators began asking where she had gone, why she had chosen that location and whether the man traveling with her had also fired a weapon.

Her answers placed the responsibility squarely on herself.

And before the encounter ended, officers would uncover another issue inside the truck.

“Was It Just You?”

At approximately 6:50 in the footage, the interviewing officer begins asking about the location where the shooting occurred.

The woman tells him she does not live immediately beside that area, although she lives nearby.

He then asks the question that gets directly to the heart of the investigation.

Why did she decide to go there and shoot?

The transcript does not clearly capture every part of her answer, but the officer follows up by asking where she had been firing and whether she was the only person shooting.

“Was it just you that was shooting?” he asks.

He repeats the question.

Her answer confirms that it was.

“Just you that was shooting,” the officer says as he acknowledges her response.

The man with her, she explains, was a friend.

Police ask where he had been during the shooting, and she indicates that he had been standing nearby.

The officer then confirms another important detail about the weapon itself.

The newly purchased pistol is a 9mm.

“Yes, sir,” she responds when asked.

“It’s a nine.”

With that admission, officers now have the woman identifying herself as the sole shooter and identifying the caliber of the weapon involved.

But they continue working through the timeline.

More Than Five Shots

The officer asks whether the woman could take police back to the location and show them exactly where she had been shooting.

She indicates that she could.

Then comes another important question.

How many rounds had she fired?

At approximately 9:00, the officer asks how many times she would estimate she shot the gun.

Her answer leads him to clarify:

“More than five?”

The conversation continues for several minutes as investigators gather information.

Then the tone changes.

Until this point, police had repeatedly characterized the woman as detained while the facts were being sorted out.

Now the officer tells her that status has changed.

“Right now, you are going to be under arrest,” he says.

He tells her that she will be placed in another officer’s patrol vehicle because the male occupant is already secured in his car.

The woman’s immediate concern turns toward her truck.

She asks whether someone can be contacted to come retrieve it.

Officers tell her to give them time to finish what they are doing.

Meanwhile, police continue searching for evidence connected to the firearm.

They locate a 9mm magazine and discuss how it had apparently been moved inside the truck.

But firearms soon become only part of the investigation.

A K9 Searches the Vehicle

At approximately 11 minutes into the footage, a police K9 is brought around the truck.

The dog methodically checks different areas of the vehicle while officers give commands.

Shortly after 12:13, an officer announces the result.

The K9 alerted on the woman’s side of the vehicle.

“He hit on her side,” the officer says.

That alert prompts further investigation.

Police begin asking the woman whether there is anything inside the truck they should know about.

This time, she provides the information herself.

She tells an officer about a green metal container.

The container, she says, contains marijuana.

She describes some of it as “shake” and also tells police that there are additional loose plant materials inside the truck.

The admission gives officers another investigative avenue beyond the gunfire.

The woman also mentions that the male occupant is on probation, making the presence of contraband and firearms potentially more consequential for him as well.

The Investigation Keeps Expanding

By this point, the original shooting call has produced several separate pieces of evidence.

Police have recovered the woman’s newly purchased handgun.

She has said she was the only person firing it.

She has identified it as a 9mm.

She has told investigators that she fired more than five rounds.

She has been formally placed under arrest.

A K9 has alerted on her side of the truck.

And she has acknowledged that marijuana is inside the vehicle.

The man is also facing increasing scrutiny.

Police learn during the stop that he has his own legal problems, including a warrant and a suspended license.

The officers’ attention therefore shifts from determining whether a shooting happened to cataloging everything connected to the truck and its occupants.

And the next search produces an even more surprising discovery.

Inside the vehicle, officers find another gun.

Then they open a metal container filled with cash.

The amount quickly climbs into the tens of thousands of dollars.

For the woman, the discovery is tied to a deeply personal explanation she has already begun offering police — one involving the recent death of a parent and money she says was left to her.

What began as gunshots behind a neighborhood was about to turn into a scene involving two firearms, drugs, thousands of dollars in cash and criminal charges for both people in the truck.