Plainville — Suzanne Laprise, the Plainville woman accused of shooting up the lobby of the Bristol Police Department last week, had an argument with her boyfriend beforehand, according to a newly obtained report.

Laprise, who police said was drinking before she started firing the boyfriend's gun, "turns into a totally different person when she consumes alcohol," the retired New York City police officer told Plainville police that night, the report stated.

The Plainville incident report was written after the police station shootout, during which no one was shot. Laprise, 51 and a retired employee of the state Department of Developmental Services, was arrested on more than a half-dozen charges, including criminal attempt to commit murder.

She remains in custody at York Correctional Institution in Niantic in lieu of $1 million bail, correction records show.

Laprise was captured on surveillance video walking into the Police Department lobby, gun in hand and unsteady on her feet, at about 11:30 p.m. Oct. 5 — a week shy of the one-year anniversary of an ambush during which two Bristol officers were shot and killed and a third wounded. She banged on the windows separating the lobby from offices and then fired rounds into them and into a lobby door window. When police tried to talk to her from behind a door, she fired again in the officers' direction, and an officer returned fire, according to a preliminary report by state Inspector General Robert J. Devlin Jr. None of the rounds penetrated because of the bullet-resistant glass in the windows, including those in the door.

When Laprise put down the gun, a swarm of officers rushed into the lobby. One shocked her with a stun gun, and as they tried to handcuff the crying woman she told them to kill her, police said.

According to the Plainville report, a Plainville officer went to Laprise's apartment on Colonial Court after the shootout at Bristol's request to check the welfare of Laprise's family. No one answered the door, but when Laprise's boyfriend, Robert Guarino, arrived he said Laprise had taken his bag, which contained a knife, a baton and a 9 mm SIG Sauer handgun, the report said.

Guarino told police he came home with beer that night around 8 or 9 p.m. and put down the bag on steps inside the apartment, the report said. He and Laprise had a verbal argument, he said, and they went their separate ways within the home. He noticed at about 10 p.m. that she had left, and that his bag was missing, according to the report.

Guarino said his wallet was missing, too, but that Laprise left behind her cellphone. He said he drove to Sliders, a nearby bar she was known to frequent, and to another bar in Bristol but was unable to find her, the report said.

It was then that he made the comment to the officer about Laprise changing personalities when she drinks, the report said.

"Guarino said several times that he did not have time to secure his firearm in his gun safe like he normally does," the officer wrote in the report. Guarino did not respond to requests for comment.

According to the Bristol police report of the shots-fired incident, Laprise had talked to a woman inside the Bristol Sports Bar & Grille about her problems and said she had her boyfriend's gun before she stumbled into the Bristol police station down the street.

She also said to the woman, "I'm going to go to the Bristol Police Department and tell them to kill me or I will shoot them," the report said.

The woman told police she never saw the gun and she didn't believe Laprise, whom she didn't know, but that she advised that Laprise talk to someone, according to the Bristol report.

Reached by phone this week, the woman, whom Hearst Connecticut Media is not identifying because she is a witness, said she was "terrified" when she saw on the news the next morning that the woman left the bar, drove to the police station and repeatedly fired a gun.

"It's very scary to know that you were that close to someone who's out of their minds, you know?" she said.

'Comes as a surprise'

One week after the police station shootout, Laprise's neighbors at Colonial Court Thursday were shocked and saddened by allegations that she was involved.

"I'm shocked because this has been a very quiet community," said Judy, who asked that her last name not be published. She said she had lived there for 30 years.

Another neighbor, Richard Thayer, said Laprise and Guarino introduced themselves to him as his new neighbors about a year ago.

"They seemed friendly enough," Thayer said, adding that learning about the events of last week's incident "comes as a surprise to me."

"I see them going for walks and stuff," he said.

Julie Rose, the apartment complex's letter carrier, said she heard about the incident and "it's heart wrenching because I heard she did it because she wanted to die."

It's distressing, she said, "when we feel like that and we don't feel there is any way out."