In the midst of an arrest on Taylor Street at 10:13 p.m. Monday, several shots were fired at law enforcement officers by the woman they were attempting to take into custody.

As officers with the Griffin Police Department were working a robbery suppression detail, they allegedly observed a woman, later identified as Sharon Louise Taylor-Griffin, soliciting the operator of a commercial vehicle.

Believing Taylor-Griffin was engaging in an act of prostitution, officers, with the assistance of a passing Georgia State Patrol trooper who also observed the situation, approached the suspect and attempted to identify her.

When questioned about her identity, Taylor-Griffin allegedly provided officers with the wrong name. When the GPD officers contacted the address given by Taylor-Griffin, they were told she had identified herself as her sister.

When the officers called Taylor-Griffin by her actual name, she fled on foot, eastbound on Taylor Street, running toward South Sixth Street.

After a short chase, the suspect was apprehended, and police say she continued to resist arrest at this time by fighting the officers.

After being handcuffed, police officials say Taylor-Griffin continued to fight officers on the scene as she was led back to a GPD vehicle.

Once back at the vehicle, the suspect is alleged to have kicked the vehicle and tried to climb on top of the trunk.

Taylor-Griffin was at this time placed on the trunk, but she attempted to push herself off the car. A male GPD investigator, by utilizing his body weight, tried to keep her on the car.

It was at this time, police say, when Taylor-Griffin was able to un-holster the investigator’s duty weapon and fire three shots at the officers on the scene. Officials say one of the rounds allegedly fired by the suspect entered the pavement between the GSP trooper’s feet.

Taylor-Griffin was quickly disarmed and none of the officers on the scene returned fire.

The suspect was taken into custody and subsequently transported to the Spalding County Jail, where she is being held on three charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, felony obstruction of law enforcement, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, removal of a law enforcement officer’s weapon, giving a false name and date of birth and pedestrian in a roadway.