She had a beautiful voice. According to police, Officer Terry Shirley fired several shots at the mentally ill woman, who had crashed her van into a truck and backed into a police car, after she accelerated and turned her wheels toward him. The shooting has spawned demands for Shirley's firing, as well as investigations by the police and State Attorney's Office. The one who, in between bouts of paranoid schizophrenia, could arrange flowers, remember all the birthdays of her 12 siblings and would never, ever leave the house with her nails unpolished. But Shirley could fool you.
Family members know their loved ones.
And in 1996, Stevenson said, they knew. Something had to be done about their sister. Ansley had been driving erratically. Threatening family members. She had also been seen strumming a guitar with no strings at 3 a.m.