A Watauga woman left her home upset Tuesday. Minutes later, police fatally shot her.

Brandy Caldwell stormed out of her home Tuesday afternoon and drove away in her van, upset after hearing that her attorney would not represent her in a custody issue involving her children, her mother and roommate said Thursday.

Minutes later, the 46-year-old Caldwell called her roommate in hysterics. “I hit a car. I didn’t mean to,” she said, then ended the call.

Seconds later, Lyla Henseler received another call from Caldwell.

“I told her it was no big deal, we’ll take care of it,” Henseler said Thursday. “She just said, ‘I love you.’ ”

The call ended.

At about that time, Caldwell, carrying a handgun, was walking down a street near Watauga Middle School and Grace E. Hardeman Elementary School, which had just let out for the day.

An officer responding to a report of a person with a weapon encountered Caldwell and shot her, police said.

After firing one shot, the officer immediately went to administer aid to her, police said. She was taken to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth where she died Tuesday night.

Caldwell’s family and friends remained in shock Thursday.

Her mother, Nancy Smith of Grand Junction, Colo., said her daughter was tiny — standing about 4-foot-11 and weighing about 100 pounds.

“They say she was walking down the street with a gun,” Smith said Thursday in a telephone interview. “That’s not who she was.”

Smith and Henseler said they had never seen Caldwell with a handgun. Henseler said there was never a weapon in the home she had shared with Caldwell since June after both went through divorces.

Henseler said she had met Caldwell at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

Caldwell had been married for 20 years before getting a divorce about a year ago. She and her ex-husband had a verbal agreement about custody and they were attempting to get the issue legally resolved with attorneys, her mother said.

Smith explained that her daughter’s marriage had been difficult. Caldwell had been to mental health facilities on several occasions, her family said.

Caldwell’s ex-husband could not be reached Thursday.

Officers had been called to her home in the past, Police Chief Robert Parker said Thursday. He did not have any details on the calls.

Henseler said police officers knew Caldwell and “knew she had issues.”

Police were actually at the home Tuesday afternoon at the time of the shooting.

“Her attorney apparently called police to check on her,” Henseler said. “They arrived, but she had already left. One officer stayed at the house while they searched for her.”

Caldwell was shot about 4 p.m. in the 6300 block of Watauga Road, less than a mile from home.

“The officer saw her in a yard,” Parker has told the Star-Telegram.

Police have not yet released any video they may have from dashboard or body cameras.

“I was standing by the officer at our home when I head the dispatcher say, ‘shots fired,’ ” Henseler said.

The officer, whom police did not identify, was not injured in the shooting. He has been a police officer for more than 20 years, and he was placed on leave.

The Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting.

Caldwell “was one of those people who fell through the cracks,” her mother said.

This story was originally published August 31, 2017 at 5:42 PM with the headline "A Watauga woman left her home upset Tuesday. Minutes later, police fatally shot her.."