FRANKLIN, N.H. (AP) – Police have charged a Franklin woman with murdering a convenience store owner whose body was found on the sidewalk outside the store Tuesday night.

Susan Disharoon, 48, held police at bay for more than nine hours from inside her apartment, which was above the store on Central Street.

Disharoon was arraigned Wednesday on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Syed A. Hussain, 36, the convenience store owner. No plea was entered. Disharoon shot Hussain several times with a shotgun, according to papers filed in Franklin District Court.

Police were called to the area when residents reported hearing gunshots around 9:40 p.m. near the Twin River Market.

“Disharoon refused to leave the residence, stating that she would not be taken alive and indicating that she wanted them (police) to shoot her,” Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said in a statement.

Officers called in the state police SWAT team after hearing what sounded like shotgun shells being loaded into a shotgun.

Police negotiators tried through the night to talk the woman out. She was arrested shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday.

Disharoon is charged with second-degree murder.

Syed Z. Hussain and family members from Manchester were at the police line. They told The Citizen of Laconia that Hussain’s brother, Syed A. Hussain, owned the market and did not come home Tuesday night.

Hussain said his brother had been running the store and believed he was working at the time of the shooting.

Family members said repeated attempts to reach Syed A. on his cell phone were unsuccessful.

A witness, Peter Rodriguez, told the New Hampshire Union Leader he was sitting on his porch, across the street from the store, and noticed Disharoon ducking in and out of her apartment stairway and looking up and down the street. He said when the owner came out of the store, Disharoon ran into the stairwell, emerged with a shotgun and fired.

The first shot missed, Rodriguez said, and the man froze.

A second blast hit the man in the abdomen.

“When I saw her I didn’t think it was real. It wasn’t until the second shot hit him that I knew it wasn’t just a prank,” said Rodriguez.