'I will kill you': Woman seeing her Lincoln being towed away shoots driver after trying to hop in and drive off, cops say

When a pistillate successful Tennessee realized her car was astir to beryllium towed, she tried to get successful the conveyance and thrust disconnected earlier shooting the driver, authorities say.

Iysha Chapman, 26, has been charged with aggravated assault, Shelby County tribunal records state. She is successful jail connected a $150,000 bond.

According to an affidavit of complaint, a antheral with a towing and betterment institution said helium and his co-worker "received a repossession order" to tow a 2015 Lincoln MKC. On Wednesday astatine astir 3:45 a.m., they headed to the code they were fixed — a location connected Treadwell Street successful Memphis, Tennessee, wherever Chapman was staying.

One of the men said that erstwhile they got there, a pistillate — identified aboriginal arsenic Chapman — "came extracurricular and asked to get immoderate worldly retired of the vehicle." The men "allowed her to retrieve her idiosyncratic items and told her to interaction the lien holder concerning the matter."

However, erstwhile the tow motortruck idiosyncratic asked her for her keys back, she "refused to springiness them to him" and stated, "you each volition person to resistance it," the tribunal papers states. The antheral said helium got successful the motortruck and prepared to bash conscionable that.

As helium was wrong the truck, the antheral stated helium heard the suspect say, "I volition termination you," and she allegedly fired a gunshot and deed the different idiosyncratic — who was not successful the motortruck — successful the shoulder. The wounded idiosyncratic hopped successful the vehicle, and the men drove distant and called 911.

Officers with the Memphis Police Department arrived astatine the Treadwell Street determination and spoke with Chapman. She reportedly said she came extracurricular of a location and noticed her conveyance was being towed. "She advised she missed a outgo connected Monday but thought she had a five-day grace period," the affidavit states.

The suspect continued, claiming "she attempted to leap successful the conveyance and thrust disconnected erstwhile 1 of the tow motortruck drivers stopped her from getting wrong of it by pushing her back."

Chapman "felt helpless," she recounted, truthful she "went successful her purse," pulled retired her firearm, "and fired a changeable striking the antheral successful the shoulder."

Investigators got a hunt warrant and seized a teal .380 Glock that had 5 unrecorded rounds successful it. When the wounded tow motortruck idiosyncratic was aboriginal shown a photograph lineup of six people, helium reportedly "positively identified Chapman."

The suspect was arrested and booked into jail; she is expected to look successful tribunal connected Monday.