Woman Armed With Knife Shot By Police In Queens Village: NYPD

QUEENS VILLAGE, NY — A woman who officials say rushed towards police officers with a knife in her hand was shot and tased by cops in Queens Village Friday night, according to the NYPD. The woman is in stable condition at an area hospital.

NYPD Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison told reporters that around 10 p.m., two officers going west on Jamaica Avenue saw a woman acting "erratically" in front of a car wash as they approached 212 Street, according to a transcript provided by police. The officers were uniformed and traveling in a marked police car.

The two officers entered the driveway of the car wash when the woman threw a glass bottle at the officers when they exited the car, Harrison said. Cops saw that the woman had a knife in her hand.

According to police, the officers repeatedly ordered the woman to drop the knife when she "advanced towards them with the knife still in her hand." One of the officers fired a round that struck the woman in her lower abdomen before she fled the scene, police said.

Two more cops responded to the scene and found the woman about a block away from, police said.

One of the officers tased the woman while the second officer took her into custody, according to police. The woman still had a knife in her hand, police said.

The woman was taken to a nearby hospital where she is listed in stable condition.