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The mother of a woman fatally shot by police after she broke into a home wielding a sword has said officers “murdered her only daughter.”
Ashley Dean Fulkerson, 28, broke into a house in Kansas City on Thursday, The Kansas City Starreported. The report referred to her as Ashley Simonetti, the name used on her Facebook profile.
Fulkerson climbed out of a window to escape police, and ran across the lawn of a neighboring property in a bridesmaid dress and wielding a decorative Japanese sword she took from the property. Police officers shot bean bags at Fulkerson, Grant Braaten, whose yard she ran across, told The Star.
She then tried and failed to enter other homes, and eventually hid in a garage behind a burned-out home. Police attempted to reason with her, and deployed a robot, tear gas to lure her from the garage.
But following a two-and-a-half hour standoff, officers opened fire on Fulkerson after they tried to enter the garage with a battering ram, and she crept out from under the door. Simonetti died at around 4 p.m.
Police confirmed her identity as Ashley Dean Fulkerson on Friday and said they had recovered a sword beside her.
Kansas City Police Chief Rick Smith told reporters at the scene officers “did what they thought was necessary.”
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