INDIANAPOLIS, IN-A middle-aged woman who was naked when she surrendered to police after hitting an officer with her car at a convenience store was undergoing a medical evaluation today.

Fishers Police Sgt. Gerry Hepp said Leann E. Orbin, 47, was detained and taken to Community Hospital North for evaluation of a suspected impairment, possibly from drugs or alcohol.

Hepp said the evaluation will help prosecutors decide whether to charge the woman with felony counts of criminal recklessness.

Fishers police officer Jeff Phelps, who was knocked down by Orbin’s Mitsubishi and fired on the car as she fled, was treated for scrapes to his leg at Riverview Hospital and released.

Hepp said the incident began about 4:45 a.m., after police responded to a call from an employee of the Village Pantry at 96th Street and Lantern Road.

The caller was seeking help with the woman, said Hepp.

“We had an officer there very quickly,” he said. “Within seconds he’s on the radio ... shots have been fired.”

Hepp said ongoing investigation shows the woman, an Indianapolis resident and frequent Village Pantry customer, was acting strangely at the store and had asked employees to call police “because they weren’t treating her right.”

Although the woman had left by the time Phelps arrived, he said, she returned and then tried to speed off as he approached, knocking him down as she backed up and then sped north.

“He fires at the vehicle,” said Hepp, adding that one bullet may have hit the car before it headed out of the adjacent Marsh grocery lot and rammed the cruiser of an approaching Fishers officer on Roberts Drive.

Hepp said Orbin tried to push officer Ben Colling’s car out of the way before backing up and turning north into a Kittle’s warehouse lot.

The chase ended – but not immediately – when Orbin drove north on a dead-end lane by the Kittle’s loading dock.

Although she got out of her car and lay down as instructed, she climbed back in and tried to escape again before finally exiting and surrendering, Hepp said.

“She was not wearing any clothes when she was taken into custody,” added Hepp, who said the woman gave no explanation for her sudden lack of attire.

“She was wearing clothes when she came to the store. She was wearing clothes when she returned,” he said.

“In between the time that she struck officer Phelps and fled the area and was taken into custody she had disrobed.”

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