Police officer shoots, kills woman in Oklahoma City

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A police officer fatally shot a woman on a south Oklahoma City street corner Friday morning after she threatened officers with a knife, police said. <br><br>Police reported getting

Friday, December 1st 2000, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ A police officer fatally shot a woman on a south Oklahoma City street corner Friday morning after she threatened officers with a knife, police said.

Police reported getting word of a ``deranged'' woman carrying a knife walking along an Oklahoma City street shortly after 8 a.m., said police Lt. Barry Clark.

Clark said two officers responded to the scene and found the woman near the corner of S.W. 29th and Walker Ave.

He said the officers told the woman repeatedly to drop the knife, but that she refused.

When the subject was again ordered to drop the knife, Clark said she ``raised the knife in a threatening manner and closed the distance between herself and the officers.''

Clark said one of the officers fired a single shot at the woman, which hit her in the right abdomen.

The woman died after undergoing emergency surgery Friday morning at University Hospital, hospital spokeswoman Gay Conner said.

Clark said he did not know how close to the officers the woman was when she was shot.

He said the identities of the shooting victim and the officers were not being released Friday morning.

The incident marks the third officer-involved shooting in Oklahoma City in the past 10 days.

An investigation into the matter is ongoing and the police who fired the weapon will be placed on routine administrative leave, Clark said.