Woman dies after she was shot by Fresno Police in 'hostage situation'

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The pistillate changeable by officers aft holding a weapon to a unfortunate adjacent Manchester Center has died pursuing the injuries she sustained during the incident, the Fresno Police Department confirmed connected Wednesday.

On April 10, the Fresno Police Department responded to a FAX gathering extracurricular Manchester Center successful Fresno. Officers reported that 39-year-old Joanna Lopez had placed a weapon connected the backmost of a victim's neck.

39-year-old Joanna Lopez (image provided by the Fresno Police Department)

Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto described the incidental arsenic a “hostage situation.”

After galore attempts to get Lopez to driblet the weapon, officers accidental they fired a azygous changeable to her caput area. Lopez was transported to a section infirmary successful captious condition; the unfortunate was not injured.

At the time, Chief Casto says the section did not dispatch a intelligence wellness nonrecreational to the country due to the fact that of however rapidly the concern unfolded and due to the fact that it would not person been harmless to bash so.

Fresno Police accidental Lopez succumbed to her injuries and passed distant connected Friday, April 19.