Officers who shot and killed woman caught stabbing mother in Melbourne faced ‘terrible dilemma’, police say
by Royce Kurmelovs and Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#6K769)
Police say they acted appropriately' when they shot a 26-year-old woman who fatally stabbed her 53-year-old mother
A Victorian woman shot and killed by police officers on Friday evening was caught in the process of stabbing her mother, police say.
Police revealed details about the incident on Saturday, saying that an officer was called to a home in Melbourne's north-east at about 6.30pm after neighbours mistakenly reported that a young woman was trying to set her mother on fire.
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