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Abigail Lopez
Gender : Female
Age : 20
Race : Latino/a/e
Date : 10/29/2023
Location : 1200 block of S Anaheim Blvd
City : Anaheim
County : Orange
State : California
Agency : Anaheim PD
Officer(s) :Unknown
Cause of Death : Gunshot
Event : Killed by police during “person with a gun” call
OPEN RECORDS SUMMARY :
Anaheim PD were sent on a call about a “woman with rifle.” Police arrived, got into some sort of argument with her and shot and killed Abigail Lopez who held a "BB or pellet gun that resembled a legitimate short-barrel assault weapon." She was not armed with any deadly weapon when killed and there is no record of her threatening anyone. BWC is needed to understand this event better. Police arrived and apparently did not “fear for their lives” when they saw her holding the pellet gun or they would likely not have stood around arguing with Lopez for a while if they felt in mortal danger, as eyewitnesses report an argument preceding the deliberate center mass kill shot described. It is unclear how the “argument” with police escalated into a shooting over a pellet gun after the argument.
SOURCE LINKS :
https://abc7.com/anaheim-officer-involved-shooting-woman-killed-bb-gun-pellet/13990407/
