Police said it appeared the round, classed as a less than lethal option, had entered the woman's chest.
, according to interim post-mortem results.
Krista Kach, 47, allegedly also threatened officers with the axe and barricaded herself inside a unit.The woman died after she was Tasered and hit with a bean bag round by police in Stockton, near Newcastle. A bean bag round, classified as a "less than lethal" option by police, is fired from a regular shotgun and is designed to briefly immobilise a suspect during an arrest while being less damaging than a bullet.
NSW Police Acting Commissioner David Hudson said today the interim post-mortem results, which he had been permitted by the coroner to reveal, indicated the woman had suffered a gunshot wound to the chest.
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