A Norwood Police officer shot a gun-wielding woman in the parking lot of a storage business there Friday afternoon, police said.

“We hope that she’s going to be ok. We also are tending to the officers who are present at the scene to make sure that they’re going to be ok,” Norwood Police Chief William Brooks said at a press conference he held at around 3 p.m. outside the Extra Space Storage location on Morse Street where the tense interaction took place just an hour or so beforehand.

The unnamed woman, who Brooks described as “middle-aged” and who “had recently been living in Norwood,” was still alive at the time Brooks spoke with the media.

As Brooks told it, the woman was in some kind of interaction inside the storage business with another man when she drew a gun on him and then the man called 911 a little before 1 p.m. The woman exited the building and walked into the parking lot as she held the gun to her own head, which is how Brooks — who said he was on scene throughout the incident — said officers found her upon arrival.

The responding police set up a perimeter around the parking lot, Brooks said, to make sure whatever happened would not leave the area. Then an officer negotiated with the woman for some 45 minutes as Brooks said the woman alternately pointed the gun at herself and at the officers.

While she purportedly circled the lot throughout the ordeal, Brooks said she eventually went straight at the officers who were assembled in the street and at that point one unidentified officer fired a single bullet at her, hitting her in her midsection.

Police performed first aid at the scene as they called for an ambulance. She would eventually be flown to a Boston Hospital.

The incident is being investigated by Norwood Police as well as State Police troopers assigned to the Norfolk District Attorney’s office, Brooks said.