A woman was fatally shot by Clear Creek County sheriff’s deputies near Georgetown on Thursday after pointing a gun at officers as they tried to arrest her on an out-of-state warrant, according to the sheriff’s office.

Empire police officers requested help from the sheriff’s office for a “high-risk arrest” at around 10:20 a.m. for a woman with a felony warrant from Oklahoma for illegal firearm possession, sheriff’s officials said in a news release Thursday night.

The woman was alone in a vehicle in an empty parking lot at Empire Junction, where U.S. 40 meets Interstate 70, when police first contacted her, according to Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Jenny Fulton.

She was sitting in the passenger seat and refused to exit the vehicle, instead crawling from the passenger seat into the driver’s seat and fleeing, Fulton said.

The woman was driving east on County Road 306 and crashed on a sharp turn near the County Road 308 intersection in Lawson, hitting trees and brush just south of Clear Creek, according to the sheriff’s office. The area is six miles east of Georgetown.

When she again refused to get out of the car, law enforcement used “less-lethal options” such as pepper balls to try to get her out, Fulton said.

She later got out of the car with a gun, waved it around and pointed it multiple times at deputies, Fulton said. She refused to drop the weapon and started walking onto the bridge over Clear Creek while deputies and officers continued using less-lethal force, which was ineffective.

Three deputies shot her when she again pointed her gun at them, the sheriff’s office said. She was taken to a metro Denver hospital with life-threatening injuries and was pronounced dead just after noon. Her name will be released by the Clear Creek County Coroner’s Office.

No officers were injured in the shooting, according to Fulton.

Thursday’s police shooting is under investigation by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. All three deputies are on paid administrative leave pending the results of that investigation.

This is the Clear Creek Sheriff’s Office’s first documented police shooting since the death of 22-year-old Christian Glass in 2022.

Glass called 911 for help after his car got stuck in Silver Plume on June 11, 2022, and was experiencing a mental health crisis when a Clear Creek County deputy shot and killed him.

A jury found Clear Creek County Sheriff’s deputy Andrew Buen guilty in February of criminally negligent homicide in Glass’s death.

Buen is next scheduled to appear in court for a sentencing hearing on April 14, where he could be sentenced to up to three years in prison.

The six other officers present on the night of the shooting were also charged with failing to intervene in the excessive force of another officer. Charges were dropped against two of them, both Colorado Division of Gaming officers, in December.