This situation is just sad. I’m curious to know if there is a mental disorder that hasn’t been disclosed. I bolded a section for emphasis, since we’ve talked a lot about tasers lately.
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=7862421
A valley woman is dead after being shot by a Henderson Police Officer. Police say they were trying to issue a speeding ticket when the 42-year-old woman took a knife from her ice cream truck and made a threatening move toward police.
It started with Henderson Police pulling over a speeding ice cream truck driven by 65-year-old Zyber Selimaj. This routine traffic stop near Sunridge Heights and Pecos Ridge was about to be anything but routine.
“The subject became combative, did not want to sign the citation. There was a language barrier,” said Henderson Police Capt. Robert Wamsley.
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Police say he threatened officers and himself. Then he got his wife on the phone who showed up in her ice cream truck, with her two children. Police say she was very upset.
“They tried to calm her down and bring her forward to the vehicle, at which time she returned to her vehicle and produced a knife. She had taken one of those children into her side, as if taking them captive and was holding the knife,” said Capt. Wamsley.
Police say they were able to grab the children and get them to safety, but the woman refused to cooperate.
“At that time, there were attempts to taser her and subdue her. Those attempts failed and she again came at the officers, and a shot was fired,” said Capt. Wamsley.
The woman was hit by gunfire and taken to Sunrise Trauma where she later died from her injuries. The children were taken to Child Haven and are okay, But the husband is in jail, charged with obstruction of justice and his traffic citations.
The 23-year-old officer has been placed on routine administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.