Santa Clara (CA) police kill bat-wielding woman [View all]

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Santa-Clara-police-kill-bat-wielding-woman-5400744.php

Santa Clara police shot and killed a 53-year-old woman after she charged at officers with a baseball bat, authorities said Monday.

The incident began about 4:50 p.m. Sunday when police received a call from a woman threatening to harm herself and others, police said. She said she had taken pills, wanted police to shoot her and would attack officers with a bat, authorities said.

When two officers responded to her apartment in the Riverwood Place complex at 5090 Lick Mill Blvd., the woman charged at them with an aluminum bat, police said. Fearing for their safety, the officers opened fire, striking the woman, police said.

She died at a hospital. Her name and the names of the officers have not been released.

One of my favorite human beings lives in that complex with her two cats.

For those of you playing along at home, Santa Clara is a normally quiet community of about 90,000 (considered smallish in the Bay Area) next to San Jose. It is the home of the 49ers' new Levi's Stadium, so I certainly hope its police force isn't riddled with douchebadges like these two!