Maricopa police department today released new details in the Monday night shooting at a Tortosa home that injured a man.
The suspected shooter, 48-year-old Pharisa Fe Brass, was arrested and booked on felony weapons charges, according to a probable cause statement obtained by InMaricopa.
Officers responded to the home in the 36600 block of West Santa Monica Avenue just before midnight after Brass’s daughter told dispatchers her mom shot her brother.
Brass’s four children were outside the home when the officers arrived. Her 24-year-old son’s right arm was bleeding from a cut caused by shattered glass. He was transported to a hospital, according to the probable cause statement.
Officers struggled to remove Brass from the house but were eventually successful.
Brass admitted to firing three bullets from her handgun in the home during an altercation with her children. She told police she went upstairs to her bedroom to grab her 9-millimeter after she was “verbally and physically attacked” by her children, according to the police report.
Brass told cops she fired a bullet into the floor of her bedroom while her children were downstairs “to try to get everyone to leave” the home, the report stated.
She admitted to firing a second bullet out the front door and a third toward the bottom of the front door when her son tried to enter.
Brass’s children said they did not attack their mother.
Police found the handgun and three shell casings in the home. They noted the three bullet holes that corroborated Brass’s story. The bathroom window and a car windshield were shattered.
Brass has a lengthy criminal record, starting when she was convicted of false impersonation in Santa Cruz County, Calif., Superior Court in 2006, and was out on bond after she reportedly fled from cops last month and was nabbed at the same Tortosa home.
Brass faces five years and nine months in prison because of her criminal record. She remains in the Pinal County jail on a $25,000 bond and will face a judge Tuesday at a preliminary hearing.
