The sister of a suspected ISIS member was shot and killed by police in Florida after she charged at an officer with a butcher knife.
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According to the New York Post, the unidentified officer from the Temple Terrace Police Department approached Heba Momtaz Al-Azhari,21, in a surveillance video moments before the shooting. The clip shows Al-Azhari reaching into her purse and lunging towards the officer with the large butcher knife in an attempt to stab him. She chases after him while another officer appears in the camera’s view and runs through the parking lot while he draws his weapon.
The officer fired several shots after telling Al-Azhari to drop her weapon. She was transported to a local hospital where she later died and the officer she tried to attack had no life-threatening injuries. Local reports say Al-Ahrazi was the sister of Muhammed Momtaz Al-Ahrazi, an ISIS supporter who was caught buying weapons and planned to carry out a mass shooting last week.
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Temple Terrace police Chief Kenneth Albano said in a statement that there was no other option but to shoot the woman :
“It’s a very traumatic thing for an officer to pull his weapon, and much less take a life”
His criminal complaint says Muhammed would practice rehearsals at potential attack areas and he previously served prison in Saudi Arabia for attempting to join ISIS with his father.“It’s a very traumatic thing for an officer to pull his weapon, and much less take a life.