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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!
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!
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