The Resource and Crisis Center of Galveston County is meant to provide a safe haven, but instead, it turned into a crime scene on Wednesday.
Lileana PearsonPolice responded to the area near The Resource and Crisis Center of Galveston County, where they were told a woman with a machete stabbed someone.A woman who had allegedly stabbed someone with a machete inside a Galveston shelter on Wednesday was shot by an officer responding to the chaos.
"This lady comes running around the corner. She said, 'Oh, some lady got stabbed with a machete,'" Ja'Cory Irving, who was visiting his aunt down the block, said. "When officers arrived, they observed her chasing one or maybe more people down the street," Galveston Police Chief Douglas Balli said.
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