The woman who was shot Friday by a UA police officer was wielding a large knife and walking toward her housemate, said a ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ police spokesman.
The woman, said ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ police Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, “suffers from significant mental issues." She was shot multiple times by UA Corporal Andrew Kisela Friday afternoon in a neighborhood near campus.
Kisela was flagged down shortly after 5 p.m. by a person in the 800 block of East Seventh Street, Pacheco said, and Kisela saw the woman with a "chef's knife" walking toward another woman in a yard.
Kisela ordered the woman several times to “drop the knifeâ€, but the woman kept walking toward the other woman, and Kisela fired his weapon, Pacheco said.
The ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ Police Department is overseeing the shooting investigation.
“Under state statute, an officer is justified in using deadly force in defense of a third person when an officer sees an immediate threat,†said Pacheco in an interview Saturday.
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The knife-wielding woman was struck once in the lower abdomen, once in the forearm and also struck in the lower extremities, Pacheco said.
She was taken to a local hospital and the injuries are not considered life-threatening, said Pacheco.
Initially, police reported that the woman was shot once by Kisela.
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