The following information was released by the Orange County District Attorney.
A woman was convicted today of shooting at responding police officers after calling 911 and initiating stand-off. Brinda Sue McCoy, 49, Cypress, was found guilty by a jury of five felony counts of assault with a semi-automatic firearm on a peace officer and one felony count of discharging a firearm with gross negligence with sentencing enhancements for the personal discharge of a firearm. She faces a maximum sentence of 29 years and eight months in state prison at her sentencing Sept. 10, 2012, at 9:00 a.m. in Department C-45, Central Justice Center, Santa Ana.
At approximately 7:00 p.m. on Dec. 16, 2010, McCoy called 911 and stated she needed police assistance. Cypress Police Department officers responded to the defendant’s home and attempted to get McCoy to come out of her residence. The officers were in full department-issued uniforms and arrived in marked patrol vehicles.
McCoy refused to leave her house, pointed a firearm at her head and the ceiling, and then pointed it directly at the police officers outside through a window. The officers warned the defendant that, if she fired her weapon, she could hurt one of the officers positioned behind vehicles in front of her house.
Despite this warning, McCoy fired the gun one time from inside her home at police officers who were stationed behind two parked vehicles outside. Approximately 20 minutes later, the defendant fired a second shot out the window.
Special Weapons and Tactics officers used less-than lethal force to subdue and arrest the defendant.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Rebecca Olivieri of the Special Prosecutions Unit is prosecuting this case.
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Courtesy photo of Brinda Sue McCoy.
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It is too bad the attorney for this poor woman known to have years of psychiatric illness symptoms didn’t plead for not guilty due to her obvious insanity. There are so many people who could have testified to that fact. A nice long time in a mental health unit would be much more therapeutic than to spend the rest of her life in prison with those awful people who will abuse her. She picked so many good attorneys in the past that won her cases but this time picked the wrong one. Life is not fair and a good attorney could have really helped this poor woman. No one in their right mind would convict a mentally ill person who is and has be so obviously not in anything close to a right mind. I hope the husband has enough means to appeal the case and finds a lawyer who will fight for this sick woman to keep her out of that awful prison with those awful people who will make mince meat of poor Brinda who will be defenseless without him. We are feel sorry for the children just like we have for so many years. They are the innocent victims.
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