Fatal officer-involved shooting of Illinois woman having mental health crisis ruled homicide
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MORRIS, Ill. - The Grundy County Coroner's Office has ruled the death of a woman who was fatally shot by a Morris police officer while she was experiencing a mental health crisis in September a homicide.
The woman, identified as 40-year-old Alvia A. Schwab, was shot and killed by an officer with the Morris Police Department on Sept. 29 in the parking lot of her apartment complex, according to a statement from the medical examiner's office.
An investigation conducted by Illinois State Police and the Grundy County Coroner's Office revealed Schwab was experiencing a mental health emergency and was on the phone with the crisis hotline when she walked out of her apartment in the 1800 block of Anne Lane around 10:54 a.m.
As Schwab approached police in the parking lot with her cell phone in one hand and a knife in the other, one of the officers fired four gunshots at her, striking her three times, the medical examiner's office said. Schwab was pronounced dead at the scene.
Following a forensic autopsy and toxicology test, Grundy County Coroner John Callahan on Wednesday ruled Schwab's death a homicide.
No further information was immediately available.
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