A FEMALE cop allegedly shot dead another woman sitting in an unmarked police car with a male detective in what is believed to be a love triangle gone wrong.
Birmingham Police Detective Alfreda Fluker is to be charged with murder after a 43-year-old woman was shot multiple times just before midnight on Friday.
Officers responded to the vehicle inside Germania Park after the Alabama city’s gunfire detection system, Shot Spotter, alerted them to shots fired.
The unidentified woman was in the unmarked cop car with a male detective who wasn’t on duty at the time, according to Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith.
The exact relationship between the officers and the dead woman is unknown, but Birmingham police confirmed with WSFA that the shooting involved a love triangle.
“It’s something that’s been going on for a little while, but without our knowledge,” Smith said.
The victim was rushed to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead early Saturday morning.
The male cop wasn’t injured, Smith told The Birmingham News.
Investigators quickly pinned Fluker as the suspected shooter.
The 39-year-old Birmingham police detective, who has been with the force for 15 years, was off-duty at the time of the fatal shooting, authorities said.
Smith called the shooting “a love triangle gone wrong” at a Saturday morning press conference.
“This is not a press conference that I wanted to give today or any other day, but it’s about the facts and the realities of life,” said the police chief.
“It’s a press conference about a love triangle gone wrong, something that happened very bad this morning.”
Fluker was arrested just before 7am Saturday at her home in west Birmingham.
She was hauled off to police headquarters for questioning and will be charged with multiple crimes, including murder.
The department said the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s State Bureau of Investigation will take over the probe as protocol for any shooting involving a police officer.
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