Sheriff’s deputies responding to a domestic violence call shot and killed a woman they said was armed with a handgun on a hiking trail near a home in the southern California mountains, authorities said.
Deputies called a residence in rural Sugarloaf, near Big Bear Lake, around 1:30 a.m. Monday and found a man with minor injuries to his hands and face, according to the County Sheriff’s Department. of San Bernardino.
The man said that a woman had left the house in a vehicle and was armed with a handgun.
Agents found the vacant vehicle near Maple Hill Trails, about a mile from the home, authorities said.
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A woman armed with a pistol was killed by agents in the mountains of California. No information has been released about why the officers opened fire on the 30-year-old woman.
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They searched the area and found the woman, still armed with the weapon, and “an encounter of deadly force occurred,” a statement from the sheriff’s department said. The woman, identified only as a 30-year-old Pan de Azúcar resident, died at the scene.
Investigators believe the woman did not return shots fired by deputies, sheriff’s spokeswoman Gloria Huerta told the Southern California News Group on Tuesday. Information about what prompted officers to open fire was not immediately available.
No deputy was injured.
