11-28-2011, 10:04 PM
Christ. whackjob. :(
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Police officers shot and killed a woman as she allegedly stabbed her young child Monday afternoon in the Carver Hills neighborhood in northwest Atlanta.
Police say they found a mother stabbing a younger child and were forced to discharge their weapons. The woman, whose name was not released, refused to put down a knife and was shot in the Abner Place home, said Major Keith Meadows with Atlanta police. The child, who was 4 years old according to a neighbor, also died in the home, but it was not immediately known if the child was also shot, police said.
The woman also is accused of choking her 8-year-old son and then throwing him out a window, police said. The boy ran to a neighbor's home, where he called 911 around 1:30 p.m. The boy was in stable condition with what were believed to be minor injuries Monday afternoon, police said.
Atlanta police officers and firefighters were dispatched to the home and expected to be assisting an injured child, Meadows said. Instead, they were met with neighbors who said they believed another child was still inside the home with the woman, police said.
When officers forced their way into home, they found the woman seated in a chair and stabbing the child, according to Carlos Campos, police spokesman. The woman was ordered to drop the weapon, but did not, forcing officers to fire several shots at the woman, police said.
Meadows said between 10 and 16 shots were fired.
Neighbor Lela Smith told the AJC that the family had lived in the home about a year and a half and had moved from the Baltimore area. The woman, who recently turned 40, lived in the home with her adult brother and the children, Smith said.
"She was my friend and my neighbor," Smith said. "I am shocked because I didn't know she was like this. I'm really in shock."
Smith said the girl who died was 4 years old and would have turned 5 next month.
The officers involved in the shooting have been placed on routine administrative leave while the incident is investigated, Campos said.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner's office will conduct autopsies on the woman and the child, police said. The names of those involved in the incident were not released Monday evening, pending notification of next of kin.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Police officers shot and killed a woman as she allegedly stabbed her young child Monday afternoon in the Carver Hills neighborhood in northwest Atlanta.
Police say they found a mother stabbing a younger child and were forced to discharge their weapons. The woman, whose name was not released, refused to put down a knife and was shot in the Abner Place home, said Major Keith Meadows with Atlanta police. The child, who was 4 years old according to a neighbor, also died in the home, but it was not immediately known if the child was also shot, police said.
The woman also is accused of choking her 8-year-old son and then throwing him out a window, police said. The boy ran to a neighbor's home, where he called 911 around 1:30 p.m. The boy was in stable condition with what were believed to be minor injuries Monday afternoon, police said.
Atlanta police officers and firefighters were dispatched to the home and expected to be assisting an injured child, Meadows said. Instead, they were met with neighbors who said they believed another child was still inside the home with the woman, police said.
When officers forced their way into home, they found the woman seated in a chair and stabbing the child, according to Carlos Campos, police spokesman. The woman was ordered to drop the weapon, but did not, forcing officers to fire several shots at the woman, police said.
Meadows said between 10 and 16 shots were fired.
Neighbor Lela Smith told the AJC that the family had lived in the home about a year and a half and had moved from the Baltimore area. The woman, who recently turned 40, lived in the home with her adult brother and the children, Smith said.
"She was my friend and my neighbor," Smith said. "I am shocked because I didn't know she was like this. I'm really in shock."
Smith said the girl who died was 4 years old and would have turned 5 next month.
The officers involved in the shooting have been placed on routine administrative leave while the incident is investigated, Campos said.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner's office will conduct autopsies on the woman and the child, police said. The names of those involved in the incident were not released Monday evening, pending notification of next of kin.