PORTLAND — On Monday January 2, 2017, at 10:09 p.m., North Precinct officers responded to the area of North Willamette Boulevard and Jessup Street after a 9-1-1 caller reported that a woman was armed with a gun and waving it around as she made threats to kill people.
Officers arrived in the area and saw a 27-year-old woman sitting on a bench that matched the description of the reportedly armed person. Officers called out to her and asked her to put her hands up and walk towards the police. The woman complied and was taken into custody without incident. Officers checked the woman’s possessions and the area around the bench for a gun but did not find anything.
Officers learned that the woman was in a mental health crisis and called 9-1-1 to make the false report about a woman waving a gun, hoping that officers would shoot her if she charged at them.
The woman was transported by police to a Portland hospital on a police officer hold for a mental health evaluation.
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