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.
Third time's the charm. Mission accomplished!
Or she was real small...
Suicide-by-cop....check the newspapers across the nation. Probably at least one case per week on average. These people want someone else to do their dirty work.
Poor, poor kid. I’m sorry to read this story.
That’s a sure way to kill yourself, but hard on the cops.
Google her picture. I’m not sure she was 100 pounds soaking wet.
I thought she was a 17-year-old girl...
The little ones can kill you just as dead as the big ones, especially if a force multiplier (e.g. a weapon) is used. She wanted to die, but didn’t have the stones to do it, so she forces a cop to do it for her. Selfish X 2.
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If you can’t disarm that waif brandishing a knife without resorting to shooting her then you’re not the man to be on a police force, policy be damned...
Suicide By Cop.
Selfish. Now those officers have to live with her idiotic decision.
Give me a break. They could have easily disarmed her and if they were too chicken or untrained to do that, they could have tazed her. This pisses me off. Life is too damn cheap these days.
“Robertson said her niece has struggled with depression and bipolar disorder since her mother died when she was four years old”
Not really one that’s very funny.
Let’s see the video tape.
Yeah, if you put your underwear on backwards that day.
Darn her luck that all three Blue Barrage Balloons put their underwear on backwards that day... LOL! :)
Reminds me of the recent Justified episode where Danny Crowe kills himself going for the 21-Foot Rule. :)
What you said. +1
Agreed.
Exactly.
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