By Associated Press - Wednesday, October 3, 2018

GERMANTOWN, Tenn. (AP) - Police fired their guns when a woman hit two officers with her car as she fled possible arrest on suspicion that she used counterfeit cash at a Waffle House in Tennessee.

Police in the Memphis suburb of Germantown said 23-year-old Chelse Chambers hit an officer’s vehicle with her Nissan Altima and then struck him with her car as he got out. Police said she pinned another officer against a vehicle as she tried to elude police Tuesday.

Officers fired their guns during the confrontation. No one was hit by bullets. Chambers was arrested when officers entered her car.

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Four officers were treated at a hospital and released.

Chambers faces charges including aggravated assault, forgery and evading arrest. Online records did not show if she had been officially charged Wednesday afternoon.

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