After getting shot by police last year, a Slippery Rock woman told a Butler court Thursday during her sentencing that she became permanently disabled and slipped into depression.

Brittany Ann Kitner, 37, confronted state police with a shotgun in October 2018 and was shot in the thigh by police. She did not return fire.

She was arrested on a number of charges, and on Nov. 9 she pleaded no contest to a felony aggravated assault, with the rest of the charges dropped.

On Thursday, Common Pleas Judge William Shaffer sentenced Kitner to three years of intermediate punishment with the first six months on house arrest.

“She lost everything because of that, her house, her job, I think she even lost her dog,” public defender Maura Palumbi told Shaffer during sentencing.

Palumbi read Kitner's statement and in it, Kitner writes that the bullet with which police shot her went through her left thigh and lodged into her right thigh. The bullet is still there, Kitner said, where it is permanently embedded. The stress of the situation led Kitner to become suicidal, but she is now getting regular therapy sessions with a psychologist.

“She's in a much better place,” Palumbi said.

During the early morning hours of Oct. 21, 2018, police responding to a report about a suicidal woman were confronted by Kitner armed with a shotgun at her apartment on New Castle Road. After a brief standoff, at least one officer shot Kitner in the thigh, according to earlier reports.

According to court documents, “(Kitner) proceeded into the doorway and raised the shotgun, at which time troopers engaged the defendant.”

Police said they fired at least one round, hitting her in the thigh. She fell to the ground, letting go of the shotgun.

Kitner did not fire any shots, police said. Both officers secured the woman and then immediately provided first aid to her.