PAMELIA, N.Y. (AP) - The frantic attempts by sheriff's deputies to get inside a car where a northern New York woman had just shot herself were videotaped by a TV reporter who happened to be on the scene.

Caroline Tucker of WWNY in Watertown was doing a story on the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department when a call was received yesterday afternoon about shots being fired in the town of Pamelia.

When deputies arrived, a man was standing outside an apartment house and a woman was inside a car with tinted windows. As deputies approached the car with their guns drawn, Tucker kept her camera rolling inside the patrol car she was riding in.

Then the words "shot fired" can be heard on the tape and police can be seen frantically trying to get inside the car as it coasts backward.

Minutes later, a deputy climbed on top of the car and ripped off the sun roof.

The woman was taken to a Syracuse hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Sheriff John Burns says the woman shot herself. Her name hasn't been released.

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