Incident

Incident Description

Buffalo police officers responded to an “unknown trouble” call around 2 a.m. on Donovan Drive on the East Side of Buffalo.

In a bystander video, concerned residents can be heard shouting at responding officers saying multiple times not to shoot the woman, and reminding them that they have tasers and pepper spray. An officer can then be seen stepping forward and firing his gun, hitting a woman who then falls to the ground.

According to police, officers allegedly encountered the woman with a knife that she wouldn't drop. Police reported that, one officer allegedly pepper sprayed the woman, she then allegedly stabbed a man in the head, and another officer then allegedly shot her in the shoulder.

The man and the woman were taken to the Erie County Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. The officers who pepper sprayed and shot the woman have been placed on PAID administrative leave.