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Body-worn camera footage released Thursday shows a San Diego police officer shoot \u2014 but miss \u2014 a driver as she allegedly attempted to flee from police and nearly struck him in northern San Diego last month.<\/p>\n

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San Diego police Sgt. Jeffrey Houchins fired and struck the front hood of a car being allegedly driven at him by 35-year-old Janet Hammel near San Dieguito Road and Derby Farms Road, in the North City neighborhood north of Carmel Valley, on May 6, investigators said.<\/p>\n

Hammel was not hit or injured, investigators said. She was later arrested on suspicion of evading police and assault with a deadly weapon on an officer, investigators said.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0edited video begins by saying that on the day of the shooting, San Diego police officers received a report of an occupied stolen vehicle around 11:05 a.m. on Tecolote Road near Morena Boulevard.<\/p>\n

The video cuts to footage taken by the San Diego Police Department helicopter\u00a0flying over a parked vehicle that it has honed in on.<\/p>\n

Police said Hammel was in the car. The car backed up and began to drive away from the scene, and a pursuit began.<\/p>\n

On Interstate 5, the car drove at speeds exceeding 90 mph, and the driver refused\u00a0to yield to the officers with their lights on behind her.<\/p>\n

After taking several streets before heading east on San Dieguito Road, the pursuit was called off due to erratic driving and unsafe speeds, police said.<\/p>\n

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On Derby Farms Road near a gated community, Houchins and another officer deployed spike strips and stood in a grassy embankment waiting for the car to drive by again.<\/p>\n

The video then cuts to body-worn camera footage and helicopter footage showing the car seemingly attempting to avoid the spike strip and driving up onto the embankment where the officers were standing.<\/p>\n

The car drove between the two officers, and Houchins fired a single round from his service weapon, the video shows. The bullet did not strike the driver but hit the hood of the vehicle, according to police.<\/p>\n

\u201cI shot into the windshield,\u201d Houchins said into his radio in the video. \u201cShe drove right at me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The car continued driving east until it reached Poway, where a set of spike strips popped the tires.<\/p>\n

The woman was then arrested.<\/p>\n

The Sheriff\u2019s Office is handling the investigation under a reciprocal agreement with San Diego police, so neither department investigates its own officers or deputies in on-duty shootings.<\/p>\n

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