Dallas update: A family member of a woman shot in Dallas says she was injured but survived when snipers opened fire on police at a rally. She was  shielding her sons when she was injured.

AP reports that the sister of 37-year-old Shetamia Taylor says the woman was at the protests Thursday night with her four sons, ages 12 to 17.

When the shooting began, Taylor threw herself over her sons. She was undergoing surgery early Friday after being shot in the right calf.

Police say five police officers were killed and 11 injured in the shootings.

The shootings happened at a protest over recent fatal police shootings of two black men.

Two of Taylor's sons became separated from their mother in the chaotic aftermath. She says they're now stuck behind a police barricade at a hotel near a parking garage where police exchanged gunfire with a suspect.


Image: Shetamia Taylor/Facebook