CHP officer shoots woman with a knife, shuts down north 71 Freeway

A woman was hospitalized and all northbound lanes of the 71 Freeway were shut down after an officer-involved shooting in Chino Hills on Friday.

The California Highway Patrol told KTLA that at around 11:30 a.m., officers responded to calls of a woman armed with a knife walking on the freeway’s right shoulder north of Butterfield Ranch Road and Euclid Avenue.

When the first officer arrived, he encountered the woman who was armed with what CHP described as a “large knife.”…

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