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Woman shot by Winter Park police officer hospitalized

WINTER PARK, FL — A woman is in the hospital after getting shot by a Winter Park police office Sunday morning.

Winter Park police responded to a home near the intersection of Harmon and Wisconsin Avenues in Orwin Manor after a report from a man that his girlfriend was trying to harm herself.

Officers found a woman with a gun in a home around 8 a.m. and tried to speak with her. During the exchange, police fired on the woman, hitting her.

She was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening wounds.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.

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