A woman is dead and a Tarpon Springs police officer, on administrative leave after a fatal shooting Friday.
Sgt. Robert Faugno of the Tarpon Springs Police Department says it started when a knife-wielding woman confronted officers outside a house on Riverside Dr.
Faugno says police first used a taser on the woman, who would not put down the knife. The taser didn't work and Faugno says the woman aggressively charged the two officers. Shots were fired and the woman died at the hospital.
The woman's name has not been released. Officers were initially received a call for police assistance at that location. Police say the woman did not live there.