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| Officer shoots hatchet-wielding woman in Wisconsin Wal-Mart |
Officer shoots hatchet-wielding woman in Wisconsin Wal-Mart
LAKE HALLIE, Wis. (AP) — A badge administrator fatally attempt a developmentally disabled woman central a western Wisconsin Wal-Mart afterwards she banned to bead a hatchet she had affective from a shelf, authorities say.Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk said the woman was arcade with chaperones Friday at the abundance in Lake Hallie, amid Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. The sheriff said Lake Hallie badge were alleged about 5 p.m. afterwards she affective a hatchet from a antic appurtenances administration shelf and began accepted it, application it on pillows and added items afore admiral showed up.
He said badge accustomed and ordered her to bead the hatchet.
"She did not cooperate, and again allegedly lunged at the officer, and he did what he is accomplished to do, and attempt her," Kowalczyk said Friday.
The woman was taken to an Eau Claire hospital with wounds to her belly and thigh. Chippewa County Coroner Ronald Patten said Saturday that the 25-year-old woman died Friday night and that an dissection was planned for Sunday.
Authorities did not anon absolution the woman's name. Kowalczyk said she was a citizen of the Northern Wisconsin Centermost for the Developmentally Disabled in Chippewa Falls.
He said the woman became confusing if it was time to leave the store.
"The escorts who were amenable for her were authoritative abiding that humans were not afflicted and advising humans to footfall aback as they approved to escort her out of the store," Kowalczyk said.
The sheriff said she had the hatchet in her control for some time afore badge arrived. The cutting happened abreast the backyard and garden center.
The Lake Hallie administrator who attempt the woman was placed on authoritative leave and will be interviewed by investigators, Kowalczyk said.
"Through our analysis we've gotten statements from a amount of eyewitnesses, and humans who were in the around that in fact saw the badge administrator and the accomplishments above-mentioned to the shooting," the sheriff said.
Any surveillance footage from the store's aegis cameras will be advised as allotment of the investigation, he said. The accompaniment Division of Criminal Analysis is acceptable the sheriff's office.
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