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Article: ANXIOUS STANDOFF ENDS IN MINOR INJURY : DEPUTIES SHOOT DEPRESSED WOMAN WITH NONLETHAL `ARWEN' ROUNDS.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- April 26, 1996
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Byline: Laurence Darmiento Daily News Staff Writer
An armed suicidal woman AWOL from the Army barricaded herself inside her family's Saugus home Thursday, keeping deputies at bay for hours, until she was shot by a nonlethal projectile while trying to drive off in her car, officials said.
In a drama that played itself out in a Seco Canyon neighborhood where normally speeders draw the most complaints, a 25-year-old Army specialist missing from Ft. Hood since April 2 was taken into custody after a tense three-hour standoff, officials said.
The woman, identified as Blanca Medina, was taken to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, where she was being ...