A woman who was screaming in a Dana Point apartment was shot and wounded by an Orange County sheriff’s deputy after she allegedly walked toward them with a kitchen knife Friday morning, March 28, authorities said.
Deputies were called to the area of Camino del Avion and Corniche Drive, a gated community called Ritz Pointe with single-family homes and condos, to conduct a welfare check after receiving a call around 4:10 a.m. that the woman could be heard screaming, Lt. Matt Timmins said.
When deputies arrived, they walked up to the door and attempted to contact the woman before she eventually opened the door and walked forward with the knife, prompting one deputy to fire, Timmins said. How many shots the deputy fired was not known.
The woman was struck and fell back into the apartment, and the knife fell inside the apartment, Timmins said. She was treated at the scene and taken to a hospital, where she was in critical condition.
No one else was found in the apartment at the time of the shooting and no deputies were injured, Timmins said.
Why the woman was screaming inside the apartment was not known.