Officer ‘justified’ in killing elderly woman in jail lobby, Spokane prosecutor decides

The Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office has decided a Spokane corrections officer was justified in killing a 70-year-old woman brandishing a knife in the lobby of the Spokane County Jail, according to a news release from the county.

Nancy King had repeatedly rung the buzzer by the locked jail lobby door just before 8 p.m. Dec. 4 when a cashier at the jail asked Sgt. Justin White for help, according to the release.

White signaled for the cashier to unlock the doors so White could talk to King, the news release said. Seconds later, King pulled a “large knife” from her coat pocket and raised it “within inches of White’s

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