NAPLES, Fla. (AP) _ Authorities in southwest Florida say a female carjacking suspect is dead following a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies.
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office said 46-year-old Michel Marie Burg got into a struggle with truck driver who she was attempting to carjack at gunpoint Wednesday.
According to witnesses, the woman then attempted another carjacking before taking a car from a couple leaving a restaurant.
The Naples Daily News reports deputies began following the vehicle down U.S. 41, and the car collided with patrol cars.
Sheriff’s spokesman Efrain Hernandez says a confrontation ended with gunfire.
He didn’t say how many shots were fired.
An internal investigation is underway.
Burg died at a hospital a short time after the shooting.
