Police fatally shoot woman knifing mom

MORRISVILLE -- Police shot and fatally wounded a 28-year-old woman who refused to stop stabbing her mother with a butcher knife Saturday night, authorities said.

Police were called to 2213 Kudrow Lane, off Morrisville-Carpenter Road, shortly after 7 p.m. on a report of a fight inside a condominium. The call came from a neighboring condo, said Stacie Galloway, public information officer for the town.

When two officers arrived, they found the 28-year-old woman stabbing her mother repeatedly as the women came out of the condo, Galloway said.

"[The officer] yelled at her several times to drop the weapon, and she did not," Galloway said. "Not only did she not drop the weapon, she continued stabbing as he was telling her to stop."

Four shots were fired, Galloway said. The woman died at WakeMed Raleigh Campus.

The mother, who suffered stab wounds to her back and chest, was "pretty lucid" when she was taken to WakeMed, Galloway said. She was in stable condition and was in emergency surgery Saturday night.

"There were too many [stab wounds] to count on the scene," Galloway said. "There was just too much blood."

Neither of the women's identities was released. The officer's name also was not released. He will be assigned to administrative duty pending an SBI investigation, standard procedure in police shootings.

The younger woman was living in the condo with her husband, Galloway said. Her parents had been visiting from India since May 27 to celebrate her new job at Duke Hospital. The husband and father were grocery shopping when the incident occurred.