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Woman Fatally Shot by SJPD Was Holding Cordless Drill: Police
NBC Bay Area ^ | Friday, Aug 15, 2014

Posted on 08/15/2014 9:58:05 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A woman who allegedly threatened to kill her family was fatally shot by a police officer in San Jose Thursday morning, a police spokesman said.

Officers responded at 10:36 a.m. to the 700 block of Blossom Hill Road on a report of a woman with an Uzi-style firearm who was threatening to kill family members inside a home, San Jose police spokesman Officer Albert Morales said.

A man named "Michael," gave NBC Bay Area some cell phone video of the woman leading up to her death. She is pictured aiming the drill in front of her, while at other times, she lifts up her other hand as if surrendering.

Carrying Cordless Drill Before Being Shot by San Jose PoliceMichael gave NBC Bay Area some cell phone video showing a woman carrying a cordless drill in San Jose on Thursday, before being fatally shot by San Jose Police.

Police tried to negotiate with the woman when she exited the home and was commanded by officers to drop the weapon. Police said the woman did not comply and was shot at least once by Officer Wakana Okuma when she pointed the weapon toward officers.

The weapons was later determined by police to be a cordless drill that was painted black.

"In fear for her safety and the safety of the public, Officer Wakana Okuma fired at the subject striking her at least once," police said in a press release.

Okuma has 13 years serving as a police officer.

The woman was taken to a hospital with serious injuries and pronounced dead at around 12:39 p.m., according to Morales.

The delay in reporting the death was due to the confirmation of her identity and notification to next of kin, police said. Her identity is not being released at this time, but police said she is 19 years old. Morales said he didn't know what family members might have been in the house with the woman prior to the shooting, but said that no family members nor officers were injured in the incident.

Morales called the report of someone armed with a possible Uzi weapon threatening family members "a very, very serious situation for our officers."

The Police Department's homicide unit is investigating the shooting.

Richard Garcia, 34, didn't see the shooting but heard it and saw the woman being loaded onto a gurney by first responders afterward.

"I heard the shot, it went 'Boom,'" Garcia said.

He said police officers were very aggressive in seeking potential witnesses who might have filmed or photographed the incident.


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To: Larry Lucido
Shot her because she was Black. And Decker.

"Decker? No … I'll just shoot 'er." - cop

41 posted on 08/15/2014 11:14:23 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Larry Lucido

Black on black egregiosity.


42 posted on 08/15/2014 11:26:08 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: nickcarraway

Bring a drill to a gun fight, you’re screwed.


43 posted on 08/15/2014 11:26:18 AM PDT by inpajamas (http://outskirtspress.com/ONE)
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To: nickcarraway

Judging by the name, he may have been an immigrant from the Black Continent and may therefore not know the difference between a gun and an electric drill.

If she had appeared with a hair blow drier or paint gun in her hand she would also have been shot.


44 posted on 08/15/2014 11:29:21 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Rusty0604
I would think there could have been another way to bring down a woman holding a screwdriver than to kill her.

Not in these modern times. The only permitted response to a person, man woman or child, acting oddly is to shoot and kill. And say, thereafter, "I felt threatened." The justification for shooting a dog or a citizen or anything else is entirely the feeling of the police officer, or actually, the willingness of the officer to say that magical phrase. It is like crimes of "harassment." The existence of a crime depends on the feelings of the member of a protected class who feels, not on the actions or even thoughts of the "perpetrator."

45 posted on 08/15/2014 11:32:40 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: arthurus

Wakana can suck my bit.


46 posted on 08/15/2014 12:42:46 PM PDT by x1stcav (Leftism is like rust. It corrodes twenty-four hous a day.)
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To: Red Badger

They didn’t specify, it may have been a .5 caliber drill..................

Probably just a 3/8ths


47 posted on 08/15/2014 1:10:41 PM PDT by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: Rusty0604

And the officer’s first name was, Chuck!


48 posted on 08/15/2014 1:10:46 PM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, was not there!)
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To: JAKraig

Unless it was an SEMI AUTOMATIC ASSAULT 0.750 caliber Drill................

49 posted on 08/15/2014 1:19:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: nickcarraway; martin_fierro
Dang, I used to live a couple blocks from there!

SV Ping

50 posted on 08/15/2014 7:39:31 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: nickcarraway
The weapon was later determined by police to be a cordless drill that was painted black.

I asked my husband what color was his drill? He said "black." I asked him if he painted it black. He said, "No, most drills just come in that color."

51 posted on 08/15/2014 9:44:26 PM PDT by Cry if I Wanna
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