Hollywood actress shot dead cops for pointing a toy gun at them
This might come as a shock to you or might seem unreal but this has really happened.Vanessa Marquez, an actress who had a recurring role in the hit TV series “ER,” was fatally shot police at her home in south Pasadena, California as she waved what turned out to be a BB gun, authorities said on Friday.
Lt Joe Mendoza of the Los Angeles county sheriff’s department told reporters Friday that officers arrived at the 1100 block of Fremont Avenue on Thursday morning, after a call from Marquez’s landlord.
According to the South Pasadenan, the lieutenant said Marquez seemed “gravely disabled”. It was reportedly not the first time law enforcement had been called to Marquez’s apartment.
On the arrival of the police around noon, Mendoza said Marquez “was undergoing some medical problems, some seizures”. After speaking with an LA county mental health clinician and officers for 90 minutes, “she became very uncooperative”.
Then, Mendoza said, she brandished a gun at the officers. The officers opened fire and she was shot in the torso. She later died at the hospital.
The firearm was later identified as a BB gun that resembled a semi-automatic weapon.
“It’s shocking, it’s really awful,” a neighbor, Mark Swaine, told KABC. “I’m just really saddened the whole thing. It sounds like a horrible, horrible misunderstanding.”
Marquez, who appeared in the films Stand and Deliver and Twenty Bucks, was in the news last year after claiming on Twitter that ER co-star George Clooney played a part in blacklisting her from the industry after she and other ER cast members complained of sexism and racism on the set of the show.
Clooney helped blacklist me when I spoke up abt harassment on ER,” she wrote on Twitter. “Women who don’t play the game lose career. I did.”
Clooney denied the allegation.
This might seem a little fictional but did the thought enter your mind that what if Vanessa Marquez was killed forcefully and the police might be reporting false statement. There is no proof of that but a policeman open-firing at someone is not a regular case seen everywhere.
Well, this certainly is a pretty saddening happening. The police should not have fired a shot at her. It cost a life. The murderer is a policeman. Isn’t the statement a little ironic?
