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GASTONIA, N.C. — An investigative report is shedding new light on a deadly shootout between a woman and Gastonia police officers earlier this year.
Channel 9′s Ken Lemon got a new report from the medical examiner’s office for the shooting of LaPorshia Shanks. But it doesn’t include one thing that Lemon learned from family and friends: Shanks was a kind woman, but trouble at home drove her to take some time off work before something snapped in May.
On Tuesday, the victim’s mother spoke with Channel 9′s Ken Lemon and said she witnessed the entire thing.
Pam Shanks told Lemon she was close with her 31-year-old daughter. She said domestic problems made her daughter take medical leave from her job.
“She had been going to see a psychiatrist,” Shanks told Lemon.
On May 18, Pam got a phone call from LaPorshia’s roommate saying LaPorshia was destroying her home on King …
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