Posted on 03/04/2014 4:52:00 PM PST by nickcarraway
A memorial is growing near where a young woman was shot dead by police after she rammed them with her car.
It all started as a fight with her grandmother, friends say.
“She has a 4-year-old son that doesn’t know… and is gonna grow up not knowing who his mom is,” said Hailey Krause, the woman’s friend.
Friends and family rushed to the scene near Sunset and San Juan Avenues Sunday afternoon after finding out they knew the woman shot and killed by Citrus Heights police.
“Her and her grandma got into argument and she went and took her grandmas keys, and her grandma told her not to and left and her grandma called the cops,” Krause said.
Police tracked the car to Citrus Heights using a LoJack device. They tried to pull her over, but police say she refused to stop – instead ramming her car into their patrol car and then leading officers on a high-speed chase.
“She was driving recklessly on the wrong side of the road and, in these weather conditions, [it] put a lot of people’s lives in danger,” said Officer Bryan Fritsch with the Citrus Heights Police Department.
Investigators say the suspect then rammed a patrol car again – and that’s when officers opened fire.
“After they let up all the shots, the car was still running. Like, she was slumped and her foot was stuck on the gas,” said Osyrus Williams, who saw the incident unfold.
“She rammed two patrol vehicles with officers in them and they did fear for their life,” Fritsch said.
Officers say the woman died at the scene.
A photo of the scene taken by a CBS13 viewer shows a silver Lexus against a Citrus Heights police car – a deadly end that began as a fight with a family member.
“They were close. Her grandma takes care of her son and she looks at her like her mom,” Krause said.
The woman’s identity has not been officially released.
Now days when the ambulance arrives, the cops even beat the lawyers. The Animal Control group comes in third to pick up the dead dogs.
When I first saw this thread, I thought it was a re-hash of that in in incident. Many of my former co-workers (I am now retired) live in Sacramento, and my son goes to Sacramento State.
I’m usually anti-cop on these threads, but if the facts are as written, it sounds like a righteous shoot to me.
I guess for todays standards. But 20 years ago no one would ever be shot based on the original crime/ police call. Nowadays it seems that confrontation and death are far more likely then they used to be.
I grew up in the fifties. Cops weren’t fast on the trigger, but if you rammed them a couple of times you would probably get return fire.
Yah... Doesn’t seem like a bad shoot.
“My first instinct these days is to wonder if the cops story is true”
Unfortunately, me, too - but, if the account of the incident is accurate, they simply had no choice.
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