From [HERE] Authorities in Puerto Rico are investigating a policeman accused of firing at an 85-year-old handicapped woman who failed to stop after she backed into a car while leaving the grocery store. The officer, who was on his bicycle, shot at the woman's car nine times and hit it five times, Victor Carbonell, director of a special investigations unit that probes police shootings, said Tuesday.

One bullet went through the windshield on the driver's side and another through the driver's side window, he said. But no bullets struck the woman. "It's a miracle she's alive," Carbonell said, adding that it is unclear whether Catalina Reyes Rivera knew she had hit someone when she put the car in reverse. He said the woman inside the car that Reyes hit flagged down the officers who gave chase and forced Reyes out of the car at gunpoint and ordered her to kneel.

Reyes's daughter, Rosa Elsie Rosado, told reporters that her mother has two prosthetic knees. "It was horrific. I never imagined that something like this could happen, much less to my mother," she said. "He didn't notice that she was an elderly person ... He kept shooting like she was an animal."