Riverhead Woman Shoots Police Officer In Head With Pellet Gun: Police

A Riverhead woman has been charged with attempted murder after she shot a New York City detective in the head with a pellet gun, police said.

Tiara Ferebee, 24, of Andrea Court, was arrested on Saturday and charged with attempted murder of a police officer, assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon, assault on a police officer, criminal possession of a weapon/loaded firearm, and reckless endangerment, police said.

According to New York City Police Department, the incident took place Wednesday in the 103rd Precinct when, at 5:11 p.m., a NYPD officer in plain clothes was driving an unmarked police car west on Jamaica Avenue and 168th Street in Queens.

The passenger of a brown 2015 Nissan Altima with a Missouri license plate was heading east on Jamaica Avenue and 168th Street and discharged a pellet from a pellet gun, striking the detective on his forehead, police said.

The detective was taken to Jamaica Hospital for treatment of his injury; the shooter fled, police said.