March 28, 2006 12:40 p.m. EST
Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter
Boca Raton, FL (AHN) – A sheriff’s deputy remains on administrative leave Tuesday after authorities say he fatally shot a mentally ill woman who lunged at him with a knife.
Monday morning, Richard Furtado, husband of Marilou Forrest, phoned the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office looking for help on getting his wife, who he says was a paranoid schizophrenic, to follow doctor’s orders that she be committed to a mental facility.
Sheriff’s spokesman, Paul Miller, says when cops entered the couple’s home, Forrest lunged at them with a knife. When a Taser proved ineffective, a deputy shot her. A short time later, the 56-year-old died at Delray Medical Center.
The names of the deputies have not been released. They are on administrative leave until the investigation continues.
This is the ninth fatal shooting involving a Palm Beach County sheriff’s deputy since 1995.
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