Cop shoots, kills 45 year old woman

[TheeBadOne]

Woman Armed With Cleaver Shot, Killed

DeKalb County police say an officer shot and killed a woman after she charged at him with a meat cleaver in her hand.

While investigators piece together what exactly happened in the fatal shooting, police are withholding the names of the officer involved and the 45-year-old female victim.

Police say the officer's name will not be made public and the woman's will be released pending notification of her next of kin.

The woman reportedly lived in a house along Haven Brook Court, near Oglethorpe University. Neighbors called police Wednesday night to report her walking around the area with some type of knife in her hand and approaching people.

A police officer arrived at the scene and asked the woman several times to drop the weapon she was carrying, police said. She refused and reportedly turned on the officer.

DeKalb Police Captain Paul Taylor said, "She turned, approached the officer, advanced on him with the knife, which really is best described as a meat cleaver."

She died at the scene, police said.

Investigators told 11Alive Reporter Paul Crawley that it appears the officer had no choice but to shoot the woman in self-defense. Authorities are also looking into why the woman was behaving so strangely.

Capt. Taylor said, "We're still looking into what may have been behind this, what may have been on her mind. Whether we’ll ever know that, we don’t know. We’ll just try to get all together all of the facts and speak with as many witnesses as we can find."

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=37709
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Facing down a cleaver!

 

[Ivanimal]

Cleavers should be regulated registered and a training regimen should preceed its sale.

 

[TallPine]

Cleavers should be regulated registered and a training regimen should preceed its sale.

Yeah, you know anyone can just walk into a grocery or hardware store and buy one of these "assault knives" without a background check or anything.

Who needs to own a knife anymore? You can buy all your food pre-processed and ready to eat.

 

[J Miller]

In this instance, if a woman, (or anyone for that matter) came at me with a meat cleaver, I'd shoot her too.
Due to injuries I can't run, and I'll darned if I'm gonna try to fight some lunatic with a knife of any kind.
She'd get real aquainted with Mr's Smith and Wesson right quick.

 

[Norm357]

This was a good shoot, yet I have seen it all over the net. *** do people expect the officer to do? Who here wouldnt shoot if some crazy lady came at them swinging two meat cleavers?


Norm

 

[TallPine]

No complaints from me.

 

[Brian Dale]

the 45-year-old female victim

Umm, 11Alive staff, I think that the word you're looking for is "attacker."

For those of you just tuning in: although the standard-issue "45-year-old female victim" is a stock character in many of our fine docu-dramas, we're going to go out on a limb here and recommend that you not charge at police officers while waving meat cleavers.

Now back to you, Ted ...

 

[Mike Irwin]

I use a meat cleaver regularly. I've a smaller one that is just INCREDIBLY efficient for kitchen tasks all the way up to chopping through turkey bones. It's not heavy enough to do most beef or pork bones, though.

If I had to defend myself and I couldn't get to a gun, I'd pick up my cleaver.

 

[Andrew Rothman]

Tell the station - politely - that their story lacked balance.

http://wxia.cust.loudcloud.com/whatson/contact/

 

[RustyHammer]

... were the police officers part of a stake (steak) out?

then, again, should could have been "on the lamb"!

 

[sw442642]

Was it June Cleaver? Don't forget to kiss the Beaver good night, Ward!

Seriously, what do you expect? In some training films, I've seen one incident during a domestic where after subduing the abusing husband, the officer gets cleavered in the noggin by the fickle spouse.

 

[Standing Wolf]

I'll bet she'll never show up for a gun fight with a meat cleaver again.

 

[HankL]

My thoughts are with the P.O. that had to stop that idiot. Why are some of us making light of this sad situation on The High Road? There is no joke when you have to stop a threat. Situations like these should not be taken lightly.
There are no questions asked in the post by thebadone. Why all of the comments? I have not intended to upset anyone, just to cause them to give thought to their responses here.
My best to all.

 

[moa]

Suicide-By-Cop, maybe? According to the article she did not threaten anybody else.

I wonder what would happen if you threw the cleaver at someone? Might be quite effective if it hits blade edge first.

 

[Mike Irwin]

"I wonder what would happen if you threw the cleaver at someone? Might be quite effective if it hits blade edge first."

I've thrown cleavers.

Once you get the hang of it, it's like throwing an axe.

You can do a LOT of damage with a meat cleaver.

 

[Andrew Rothman]

My thoughts are with the P.O. that had to stop that idiot. Why are some of us making light of this sad situation on The High Road? There is no joke when you have to stop a threat. Situations like these should not be taken lightly.

There are no questions asked in the post by thebadone. Why all of the comments? I have not intended to upset anyone, just to cause them to give thought to their responses here.

My best to all.

Lighten up.

It's okay to laugh, even when the subject is serious. Look up "gallows humor."

Why all the comments? Because it's what we do!

Matt

 

[HankL]

Matt, Check your PM
Keep To The High Road

 

[Bigjake]

sounds like a good shoot, but i'm sorta supprised the cop didn't try OC first, i know its a judgement call, but some scenarios i've done, they've used OC first.

 

[Brian Dale]

I've got a meat cleaver, too. Commercial grade: big, heavy and sharp. It's a delight to use in the kitchen, but there's no way in the world I'd rely on OC if somebody attacked me with one. As an ordinary citizen, I have the option of running.

What a nightmare for the officer. Blue suicide.

 

[WAGCEVP]

I'll side with the officer on this one.............

 

[J Miller]

Some years ago in Phoenix a Vietnamese family moved in next door to us.
They were very interesting people and we all became friends.

One day I head a series of thud, thud, thud, thud, then a crash. I said WTH and went to check out the noises.

One of the neighbors had skinnied up an ornamental orange tree, and from the top down he was cutting all the limbs off this tree. Once he did the limbs he chopped the trunk to pieces. Finally finishing up the bigger pieces on the ground.
He did all this with a meat cleaver!
To see that heavy chopping tool go through a live tree as fast as it did, makes me appreciate the damage one could do to a person.

Like I said before, it was a good shoot. And if the woman was advancing on the officer with two cleavers, I doubt he had time to get out the OC.

 

[Tamara]

Sounds like a righteous shoot to me. Assault with a deadly weapon may certainly be met with lethal force.

 

[BluesBear]

Who said anything about two cleavers?

 

[Ladybug]

Uh, yeah, gonna have to side with the majority here - anyone comes at me with a meat cleaver, I'm eventually going to have to shoot them... Take THAT as a warning, insane cleaver-wielders!

 

[Byron Quick]

Sad. I feel for the officer. And the woman. But it appears to be a fully justified shooting.

I'm probably not the best judge of humour in situations such as this. I'm an emergency nurse. We tend to get skewed senses of humour after a few years in the emergency department.