 Later that day , Solanas turned herself in , gave up her gun , and confessed to the shooting , telling a police officer that Warhol " had too much control in my life . " She was fingerprinted and charged with felonious assault and possession of a deadly weapon . The next morning , the New York Daily News ran a front page headline stating : " Actress Shoots Andy Warhol . " Solanas demanded a retraction of the statement that she was an actress . The Daily News changed the headline in its later edition and added a quote from Solanas stating " I 'm a writer , not an actress . " At her arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court she denied shooting Warhol because he wouldn 't produce her play but said " it was for the opposite reason " , that " he has a legal claim on my works . " Solanas told the judge that " it 's not often that I shoot somebody . I didn 't do it for nothing . Warhol had tied me up , lock , stock , and barrel . He was going to do something to me which would have ruined me . " She told the judge she wanted to represent herself and she declared that she " was right in what I did ! I have nothing to regret ! " " The judge struck her comments from the court record " and had her admitted to Bellevue Hospital for psychiatric observation . 
