Officers Disengage From Standoff With Knife-Wielding Woman In NoHo

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA — Los Angeles Police Department officers Tuesday disengaged from a standoff with an armed woman who barricaded herself in a vehicle in North Hollywood after a mental episode.

Responding officers attempted to persuade the woman to come out of the vehicle then decided to end the standoff when they determined she had not committed a crime, police said.

"She didn't threaten anyone with the knife," a department spokesman told City News Service. "She was basically brandishing it and she was having some mental episode."

The woman brandished a knife and remained barricaded inside her car in a residential neighborhood in North Hollywood Tuesday afternoon as officers worked to coax her out, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The incident began at around 2:24 p.m. on the 6100 block of Willowcrest Avenue, just west of Cahuenga Boulevard and Oxnard Street. The woman, possibly suffering from mental illness, brandished a knife and refused to leave the area, according to a LAPD spokesman.

City News Service contributed to this report.