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  • DA says police shooting was justified (4 cops, 1 mentally ill woman with knife)

    06/16/2009 11:17:30 AM PDT · by Born Conservative · 104 replies · 1,229+ views
    The Times-Tribune (Scranton PA) ^ | 6/16/2009 | David Singleton
    The four police officers who went to Brenda Williams' apartment the evening of May 28 were ready to wrap up, awaiting only the completion of a citation charging the North Scranton woman with disorderly conduct before calling it a night. Then Ms. Williams emerged from her kitchen holding a knife with a wooden handle and an 8-inch blade, and suddenly everything changed. Within seconds, as the 52-year-old woman ignored commands to drop the weapon as she moved toward one of the officers, three of them fired, fatally wounding Ms. Williams in what Lackawanna County District Attorney Andy Jarbola ruled Monday...