Woman Indicted for Assault on Officer

(Athens, Georgia) A 22-year-old woman, Shekeena Rena Davis, has been indicted by a Clarke County grand jury on charges resulting from assaulting a police officer.

Davis, a wanted felon with a busy history of arrests, was approached by Officer Charlie Snyder in a grocery store.

The initial police report stated that Shekeena Rena Davis took the firearm from the officer's holster during the struggle in the Alps Road Kroger grocery store, but further investigation determined the gun came loose as the officer fought the woman, according to police.

"The gun was not actually taken from him," Athens Assistant Police Chief Alan Brown said Wednesday.

After Davis grabbed the gun from the floor, she tried pointing it at Senior Police Officer Charlie Snyder - who was in uniform but working an off-duty security job at Kroger - but the officer was able to disable the weapon by pushing a release mechanism that made the ammunition magazine fall out.

A bullet had been chambered in the officer's gun, but the weapon was an older model with a safety feature that will not allow it to be fired when the magazine is not in, police said

Snyder's intimate knowledge of his weapon likely saved his life.

When Davis saw the officer's gun had fallen to the floor, she reached for it and put her finger on the trigger, but Snyder pushed the magazine release as she tried to turn the gun on him, police said.

With pepper spray and the aid of another officer, Snyder subdued Davis.

Davis faces charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, battery on a law enforcement officer, felony obstruction and removing a firearm from a police officer.

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