Caught on video: DC police shoot woman at fire scene
Video shows DC firefighters found themselves stretching an attack line last (Saturday) evening through the line of fire as a police had his gun drawn on a woman with a knife. About 30 seconds later that officer fired a shot into the chest of the woman.
It happened around 6:15 p.m. in the 5300 block of Clay Terrace. Calls came into 911 for both a house fire and a report of a woman with a knife.
The confrontation was shot by neighbors with cells phones showing a number of different angles. The image above showing the firefighters advancing the line is from the video below posted on The Washington Post website.
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Meagan Fitzgerald, WRC-TV/NBC 4:
A woman who was armed with a knife was shot by a D.C. police officer Saturday evening during a fire in Northeast, police said.
Fire and EMS responded to a fire in the 5300 block of Clay Terrace shortly after 6:15 p.m.. They found fire coming from a row house.
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As firefighters fought the fire, police got a call for a woman with a knife, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said. The woman confronted the officer with the knife, she said.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting are not clear. Video from the scene shows only a small part of the confrontation.
Lanier said the officer made multiple calls to the woman, asking her to drop the knife. The officer fired one round, Lanier said.
Sources tell News4 the woman was shot in the shoulder. She is said to be in stable condition at an area hospital.
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Clarence Williams & Martin Weil, The Washington Post:
Police and firefighters were sent to Clay Terrace after a fire was reported, Lanier said. On the way, she said, officers were told of someone there with a knife. They found a woman holding “multiple knives,” Lanier said.
In interviews, two witnesses said that when police encountered the woman, she had a knife, which they described as relatively small.
One witness, Gerald McBrayer, said she held “a little steak knife” and received no warning. Another witness, Nathan Strickland, said the woman had a steak knife with what he described as a “skinny,” 6-to-8-inch blade.
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