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From: bksherman@solyndra.com

ER was always a dumb show.

An actress who once played a nurse on TV show "ER" was fatally
shot by police officers in South Pasadena, California, when a
confrontation broke out during a welfare check and she allegedly
pointed a BB gun at them, according to authorities.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department identified the actress
Friday as Vanessa Marquez, 49, of South Pasadena.

South Pasadena police officers went to an apartment complex on
the 1100 block of Fremont Avenue on Thursday around noon for a
welfare check on a woman who was possibly suffering a medical
condition, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's
Department, which is investigating the shooting.

When the officers arrived, the department said, they saw that
Marquez was having seizures so they sought the help of
additional first responders. The department said a Los Angeles
County mental health clinician was also on the scene with South
Pasadena officers.

"While speaking to her, officers became aware she was possibly
suffering from mental health issues, became uncooperative, and
appeared to be unable to care for herself," the department said
in a news release. "They continued to speak to her for over an
hour and a half in an attempt to offer her medical care. She
then armed herself with a handgun and pointed it at the
officers, at which time an officer-involved shooting occurred."

Marquez was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead,
the department said. The weapon found at the scene of the
shooting was a BB gun, which the department said was described
as "a replica semi-automatic handgun."

No officers were injured in the incident. South Pasadena police
directed any questions about the shooting to the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department.

Marquez's filmography includes 1988's "Stand and Deliver" as
well as "ER," in which she played Nurse Wendy Goldman from 1994-
1997, according to IMDB.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/er-actress-killed-police-allegedly- pointing-bb-gun/story?id=57530493&cid=referral_taboola_feed

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