SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office says a Spokane corrections officer was justified in killing a 70-year-old woman brandishing a knife in the lobby of the Spokane County Jail.
Nancy King had repeatedly rang the buzzer by the locked door in December, begging for help, when Sgt. Justin White went out to talk to her. Authorities say seconds later, King pulled a large knife from her coat pocket and raised it within inches of White’s face.
White fired his weapon. The medical examiner says King died of multiple gunshot wounds.