A police officer fatally shot a developmentally disabled woman inside a western Wisconsin Wal-Mart on April 8 after she refused to drop a hatchet she grabbed from a shelf, authorities said.
The woman apparently got the hatchet from a sporting goods department shelf, according to Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk; She was shopping with chaperones at the store in Lake Hallie, between Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls.
The woman began swinging the hatchet, so police were called around 5 p.m. to investigate the scene.
Police said the shooting was the first officer-involved shooting in the history of Lake Hallie.
