The Brief
- Three Orange County deputies shot and killed a woman on Wednesday. Deputies said the woman was armed with a knife and advanced towards the deputies while threatening them.
- Deputies were initially called to the neighborhood on Tivoli Drive after a neighbor called 911 about a woman standing outside a home and screaming.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County deputies shot and killed a woman on Wednesday after she armed herself with a knife and advanced towards the deputies, and threatened to kill them, Orange County Sheriff John Mina said during a Wednesday afternoon news conference.
What we know:
Around 1 p.m., deputies responded to a home on Tivoli Drive after a neighbor called 911 about a woman standing outside a home and screaming, the sheriff’s office said. When deputies arrived, they knocked on the door. The woman answered and came out of the home holding “a large knife,” Sheriff Mina said.…