{"id":380259,"date":"2026-04-15T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380259\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:00:11","slug":"us-police-shoot-woman-who-grabbed-boy-slashed-him-with-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/380259\/","title":{"rendered":"US police shoot woman who grabbed boy, slashed him with knife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in Omaha, Nebraska, shot and killed a woman they say slashed a young boy with a knife outside of a Walmart after taking him from another woman inside the store.<\/p>\n

The suspect approached a female shopper and a 3-year-old boy, then displayed a large knife she had shoplifted from the store and \u201ctook possession of the child, essentially kidnapping the child\u201d, Deputy Chief Scott Gray said.<\/p>\n

The suspect told the woman to walk in front of a shopping cart, and she followed with the child at knifepoint, Gray said. They proceeded out of the store and down a driveway where the two women had \u201csome verbal back and forth\u201d for several minutes until officers arrived, Gray said.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/p>\n

This police body cam still image provided by the Omaha Police Department shows an Omaha police officer responding to a woman they say kidnapped a young boy and slashed him across the face before killing her in Omaha, Nebraska. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

After receiving a 911 call, police arrived outside the Walmart and gave the suspect commands. She began \u201cswiping the knife at the child, cutting him across the face”, Gray said. At least one officer fired at the suspect, and she died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Body-worn camera images police released showed the woman raising a knife over the young boy sitting in a shopping cart as an officer aimed a gun at her.<\/p>\n

The child was being treated at a hospital for a large laceration across the left side of his face and to a hand, Gray said. He was expected to recover.<\/p>\n

It is unclear what provoked the suspect. Gray said the two women did not know each other. The relationship between the boy and his caretaker wasn’t clear.<\/p>\n

\"Omaha<\/p>\n

Omaha police work outside a Walmart store at South 72nd and Pine Streets in Omaha, Nebraska. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Police were reviewing video from the store. The event appeared to be an isolated incident, Gray said. The Walmart was largely empty as police continued their investigation, he said.<\/p>\n

The actions inside the store wouldn’t necessarily have drawn attention from other shoppers, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey kind of just purposely but casually walk out of the store, so I don’t think anybody was actually looking at them as being a suspect of anything,\u201d Gray said.<\/p>\n

The police shooting would be investigated by Omaha police with help from the Nebraska State Patrol and the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Omaha, Nebraska, shot and killed a woman they say slashed a young boy with a knife…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,64,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-380259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}