An investigation was underway in Anaheim into the officer-involved shooting death of woman who, according to authorities, charged officers while armed with two knives following a fight at an Anaheim laundromat.
Police identified the suspect as 43-year-old Monique Jenee Deckard of Anaheim.
Officers were investigating a possible stabbing during a fight between two women, one reported to be armed with a knife, about 5:30 p.m. Sunday at a laundromat in the 900 block of south Euclid Street, Anaheim police Lt. Bob Dunn said.
Witnesses told arriving officers that the suspect had left, going into a nearby apartment complex across an alley from the laundromat in the 900 block of South Roberts Street, Dunn said.
They contacted the woman and ordered her out of the apartment complex, but she told them through the door that she would not come out, so crisis negotiators were summoned, he said. But before they arrived, the suspect came out armed with two knives, according to the lieutenant.
“At this time several Anaheim police officers were involved in an officer-involved shooting,” Dunn said.
Deckard was struck by gunfire and taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, he said, adding that the woman with whom Decker had been fighting was treated at the scene for a minor wound to her back.
Earlier, about 3:30 p.m. Sunday, concerned family members of Deckard called Anaheim police to report what Dunn described as “unusual behavior.” Friends of the family had told her relatives, who say Deckard has a history of mental instability, that she was trying to find or buy a firearm, Dunn reported.
Officers went responded to Deckard’s residence but did not locate her, he said.
Police released the 911 call from the laundromat operator telling them one woman had stabbed another and gone to her apartment behind the laundromat.
—City News Service