By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
October 2, 2011
A woman brandishing a knife was shot to death by the police in Midtown Manhattan on Sunday evening after refusing to drop her weapon and advancing toward the officers, the police said.
About 8:30 p.m., two officers responded to a call about a fight at the New Providence Residence, a substance abuse shelter for women, on East 45th Street between Second and Third Avenues.
A police spokesman said that the two officers found a woman standing outside with a knife. They repeatedly ordered her to drop it, the spokesman said, but she refused. Instead, she moved toward them with the knife raised, the spokesman said. Both officers fired their weapons. The woman, whose identity was not released, was dead on arrival at Bellevue Hospital, the police said.
Alvaro Gutierrez, 22, who works at a nearby parking garage, said that he had heard the gunshots and that they had sounded “like fireworks.”
Two residents of the New Providence shelter, Joy Ford and Wilene Miller, said that the woman who was shot and the woman she was fighting with both lived in the shelter. Ms. Miller said she had seen the two women get into a shoving match, at which point one pulled out a knife. A call to the shelter was not immediately returned.
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