According to police, Kristiana Coignard entered the lobby of the police station at 6:28 p.m., picked up the lobby phone and asked for help, but she would not say why she needed help.
Officer Glenn Derr was the officer to arrive. When he did, police say Coignard indicated that she had a gun.
“She had ‘I have a gun’ written on her hand,” Brian said.
A physical confrontation began when Derr tried to secure Coignard.
During the confrontation, Derr determined Coignard had a butcher knife that she was trying to pull from her waistband.
Derr got away from Coignard. Then, Officer Gene Duffie entered the lobby during the confrontation and drew his Taser.
A third officer, Grace Bagley, entered the department lobby and saw Coignard had a knife. Police say Coignard charged Derr with the knife in a threatening manner. Duffie then deployed his Taser at Coignard, but police said it had no effect.
Derr then fired his weapon three times, and Bagley fired her weapon twice.
Emergency personnel responded to the department lobby, and Coignard was taken to Good Shepherd Medical Center at 6:45 p.m., where she was later pronounced dead by Justice of the Peace James Mathis.
After initially detailing the events that took place in the lobby and before showing the surveillance video to members of the press, Dingler extended his thoughts and prayers are to the family of Kristiana Coignard.