Mother Is Shot Attacking Officers Who Tried to Help Dying Girl, Police Say
A woman who called the police to her home in Westchester County on Saturday was desperate: “I got a woman on the phone screaming, ‘Please come help me!’” a dispatcher said as he relayed the call over a police radio.
The police officers who arrived at the home in Mamaroneck found a 2-year-old girl unconscious and tried unsuccessfully to revive her, the police said. The girl’s mother, who was wielding a knife, attacked two of the responding officers as they searched the home, the authorities said. One of the officers shot the woman after Tasers failed to stop her, Sgt. Sandra DiRuzza of the Village of Mamaroneck Police Department said in a statement. The police did not identify the woman or her daughter.
On Sunday, investigators were trying to piece together what happened at the home on Chestnut Avenue in the quiet suburb. Police tape cordoned off the dead-end street as the police only allowed residents of its mostly two-story, clapboard homes to pass.
The police had been to the home just the day before. An officer can be heard on the radio saying that he had been there for an episode that involved a “T.O.P.,” an acronym for temporary order of protection. Sergeant DiRuzza did not respond to questions about the previous incident in an email asking for more information.
The police said preliminary investigations indicated that the officers “acted within departmental guidelines and training.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/29/nyregion/mamaroneck-police-shooting.html
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