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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - Police fatally shot the director of a small-town chamber of commerce who allegedly pointed a gun at officers after a brief car chase along a rural Utah highway.

The woman's ex-husband, who was in the back seat, was wounded in the Friday evening incident. Her boyfriend, David Gayler, who was driving the car, was arrested on suspicion of attempted homicide, Utah Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Dan Rosenhan said Saturday.

The woman who was shot, Natalie Turner, 31, of Hailey, Idaho, and her ex-husband, John Pochynok of Park City, were apparently involved in a child custody dispute. Turner was director of Hailey's chamber of commerce.

Authorities said events unfolded after police received reports of gunshots at an apartment complex in rural Wasatch County.

Police chased a silver sports car until it pulled to the side of the road four miles east of Park City, where officers heard two shots from inside the car and saw Pochynok struggling with Turner, Rosenhan said.

When Turner got out of the car and brandished a weapon, a sheriff's deputy and a conservation officer with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources each fired one shot, Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds said.

It was not clear how many times Turner was hit or whether she fired a weapon. It was also not clear how Pochynok was injured; he was shot twice and was reported in stable condition at an area hospital.

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