Lisa Fordyce-Blair refused to come outside when police arrived at her home responding to a neighbor’s report that she yelled at him while holding a rifle, court documents said.
A Wednesday afternoon confrontation between an armed woman and an unarmed neighbor in East Anchorage led to a standoff with police at the woman's home on the 7400 block of East 20th Avenue, gunfire by the woman and a SWAT officer, and the woman dead, the police department said. Photographed Thursday. . She was found dead inside the home, they said. It wasn’t clear whether the officer shot her, and police did not answer additional questions about the encounter this week.
Fordyce-Blair was inside her home and refused to come out when officers arrived, according to police. Officers made “multiple attempts” to contact Fordyce-Blair and eventually deployed gas into her home, police said. She fired multiple shots inside, they said. This is the fourth time since mid-May that Anchorage police officers have fired on someone. The three prior shootings left two men dead and a third hospitalized.with police in a Fairview parking lot. Two days earlier, officers shot and wounded 22-year-old Kaleb Bourdukofsky as he fledAnchorage police officers shot and killed
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