Posted on 01/26/2015 9:36:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Longview Police Department placed three officers on leave after a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed in the lobby of the station last week, the Marshall News Messenger reported.
According to officials, Kristiana Coignard entered the Texas police station on Thursday evening brandishing a weapon. Police spokeswoman Kristie Brian said Coignard used a phone in the lobby to call police dispatch and asked to see an officer.
When officers arrived in the lobby, she "came at the officers" with a weapon, according to Brian. Police did not confirm what type of weapon Coignard had, but Longview Mayor Jay Dean said that she was carrying a knife, according to the Marshall News Messenger.
Justice of the Peace James Mathis said Coignard was shot "multiple times," according to the Marshall News Messenger.
Police have not released many details about the incident. It remains unclear why Coignard entered the police station and what occurred before she was shot.
The 17-year-old was living with her aunt, Heather Robertson, who told ThinkProgress that her niece had been struggling with mental illness.
“I think it was a cry for help," Robertson said about Coignard's actions last week. "I think they could have done something. They are grown men. I think there is something they are not telling us."
Robertson said her niece has struggled with depression and bipolar disorder since her mother died when she was four years old. Coignard has been hospitalized twice after trying to commit suicide. Robertson told ThinkProgress that Coignard "was only violent with herself."
The three officers involved in the incident were placed on leave, and the Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting.
Not on a 17 year old. That’s perverted.
Take a midol
Well said. Thanks for putting things in context.
This is about knives.
Knives kill.
Try and stay focused if you can.
No thank you, Ma’am.
“If anyone, (the girl in the photo) charges me with a weapon in such a way that I feel threatened, I will empty my magazine into their chest.”
lol,, she was practically Michael Brown.
No, its about wussies.
No, its about wussies.
Oh wait...she'll never reach 18.
Hey sparky, I didn’t MAKE the rules here. Im just sayin’
Actually I worked with female inmates for 8 years and during that time had a few brandishing shanks that were disarmed by officers without being killed. A couple of well trained officers with chemical restraints and/or batons usually resolved these situations handily.
That he does.
Well done Skeezix. Good night.
But I think common decency is that we not Yuk it up until they are about 22 or so. Or until they become a teacher.
What she actually was was an armed assailant in the act of committing a violent felony against police officers.
Oopsie.
I bet she won’t do that again.
Why train and think when you can shoot and rationalize?
Oh, I was being sarcastic. I absolutely agree that COs do that every day somehow. And they are doing it against hardened women, not a weepy 17 year old girl. Most COs woulda had her face down on the floor. Especially if there were three of them.
“When I first started 15 years ago I was optimistic. That’s gone by and large”
I suspect that the mass purge conducted by Dubya’s internet stasi had a lot to do with the decline.
Maybe the aunt should turn the “there’s something more going on there” back onto herself.
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