WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A China Spring woman who ignored deputies’ orders to drop a shotgun outside her home in 2023 before deputies shot her was sentenced to 12 years in prison Thursday in two incidents involving the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office.

Judge Susan Kelly of Waco’s 54th State District Court sentenced Aurora Victoria Whitman, 62, to three concurrent 12-year sentences in the incident in which she threatened deputies with a shotgun and one in 2019,in which she also pleaded guilty to assaulting a jailer by kicking him in the groin.

She must serve at least six years in prison before she can seek parole.

After Whitman was sentenced, her attorney, Lauren McLeod, told the judge that Whitman is remorseful for her actions and wanted to apologize to the court and to the deputies involve

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