TheeBadOne
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DALLAS -- Dallas police said they were forced to shoot and kill a woman after she lunged at officers with a box cutter at an Oak Cliff Hotel off of Marvin D. Love freeway Saturday morning.
After a disagreement between two hotel guests over a parking space, Dallas police said they responded to a call at the Royal Hotel around 9 a.m.
When police and the hotel manager went to the woman's room, she opened the door -- cutting the manager with a box cutter, police said.
At that point, officers said they backed off and called for backup.
When police went back into the room, they told the 49-year-old woman to come out of the bathroom, later firing a pepper ball.
Authorities said the woman charged out of the bathroom directly for the sergeant, with a box cutter. The sergeant got a cut on his leg before two other officers opened fire, striking the woman multiple times.
The sergeant, who was cut, took a bullet in the foot while officers shot at the suspect.
The suspect's son, Everett Young, called the shooting "excessive force."
Young said his mother had been in and out of several mental institutions over the past year. He said his mother suffered from schizophrenia and had run-ins with the police before -- but never anything like this.
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Sad, but I guess it also shows that "less-lethal" weapons aren't 100%, and why they must be backed up with deadly force in the event they fail.
After a disagreement between two hotel guests over a parking space, Dallas police said they responded to a call at the Royal Hotel around 9 a.m.
When police and the hotel manager went to the woman's room, she opened the door -- cutting the manager with a box cutter, police said.
At that point, officers said they backed off and called for backup.
When police went back into the room, they told the 49-year-old woman to come out of the bathroom, later firing a pepper ball.
Authorities said the woman charged out of the bathroom directly for the sergeant, with a box cutter. The sergeant got a cut on his leg before two other officers opened fire, striking the woman multiple times.
The sergeant, who was cut, took a bullet in the foot while officers shot at the suspect.
The suspect's son, Everett Young, called the shooting "excessive force."
Young said his mother had been in and out of several mental institutions over the past year. He said his mother suffered from schizophrenia and had run-ins with the police before -- but never anything like this.
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Sad, but I guess it also shows that "less-lethal" weapons aren't 100%, and why they must be backed up with deadly force in the event they fail.