A 47-year-old Columbia woman is facing charges in Howard County tied to an Oct. 12 shooting that injured two teenagers.

Howard County authorities charged Dieneba Sekou Traore on Dec. 16 with two counts of attempted first- and second-degree murder, two counts of first- and second-degree assault, and several handgun violations.

Police said in charging documents that they traced Traore’s phone and vehicle to the area near a Giant Food parking lot on Centre Park Drive where the shooting took place at around the same time. Charging documents do not explicitly identify her as the shooter.

Traore is being held without bond and is being represented by Latoya Francis-Williams, according to court records. The attorney did not respond to a message requesting comment Thursday.

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Charging documents state that security cameras did not capture the shooting but did record a white Mercedes SUV circling the area around the Giant Food and a nearby Royal Farms. Footage showed the vehicle parked in view of a group of four teens crossing the grocery store parking lot and later captured a distinctive bumper sticker above the license plate while the vehicle exited the Royal Farms parking lot, the documents state.

Witnesses told police that following the shooting, the suspect got into the Mercedes on the rear passenger side.

Police said the Mercedes is registered to Traore. A few weeks before the shooting, according to the charging documents, Traore reported to police that her son was the victim of an armed robbery Oct. 7 and that he was in Texas for his safety, charging documents state. Traore followed up with police several times as well as the school resource officer at Wilde Lake High School, according to the documents.

The day before the shooting, Traore attempted to report the robbery again and voiced her frustration that nothing was being done about it, charging documents state. She also mentioned taking the incident to the news and said that if nothing happened by Monday, she was going to take the next steps.

Footage from Howard County Police Department’s southern district parking lot showed her arriving in a white Mercedes SUV with the bumper sticker, police said.

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Hours before the shooting, police said they encountered Traore and the white Mercedes at the home of a man whose son, she believed, was responsible for robbing hers.

“What I care about is not putting us in a position where we gotta be the ones to protect our kids when ya’ll are the ones hired to do that,” Traore told an officer during an exchange captured on body camera footage, according to charging documents.

Police learned the man’s son was wearing an ankle monitor from a previous robbery charge and later reviewed its location to confirm he was among the group of teens in the Giant parking lot during the shooting. Investigators also discovered that the teen’s Instagram account sent Traore’s son a video of him being robbed at gunpoint.