81-year-old woman with a knife suffering a mental health episode is fatally shot by Florida deputy
A Florida deputy fatally shot an 81-year-old woman suffering from a mental health episode after she lunged at him with a knife, authorities said.
A Florida deputy fatally shot an 81-year-old woman suffering from a mental health episode after she lunged at him with a knife, authorities said.
Authorities were called to the Rails End Mobile Home Park in Wildwood, about 52 miles northwest of Orlando, just after 11 p.m. Monday "in reference to a female who was in distress and having a mental episode," the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
The woman, Janet Sours, had called 911 and said that "people were dying over here" before she hung up, authorities said.
Janet Sours.Courtesy John SoursRescue personnel staged an area outside her home until deputies could secure the area, the sheriff's office said.
As deputies were investigating whether her complaint "was real or if she was having a mental episode," Sours pulled a knife from behind her back and lunged at a deputy, "attempting to stab him," the release alleges.
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