Associated Press
SUNRISE, Fla. - Police fatally shot a man who was stabbing his wife on the balcony outside their apartment and refused to drop the knife, officials said.
Neighbors heard Donna Satahoo screaming for help and saw her husband, Newton Satahoo, 48, stabbing her.
“There was blood everywhere,” said neighbor Cynthia Holliday. “He had something over him, the devil in him, or something.”
Holliday said the husband grabbed his wife and used her as a shield when police arrived. Police did not confirm whether she was used as a shield.
Two officers ordered Satahoo to drop his knife at least twice. When he didn’t, they opened fire and killed him, Holliday said.
Police spokesman Robert Voss said Donna Satahoo was treated for several cuts on her head and neck at Broward General Medical Center.
The couple’s 10-year-old son was home during the attack.
The officers, who were not identified, were placed on administrative leave during an investigation of the shooting.
Voss said it may be the first fatal police shooting in Sunrise, a southwest suburb of Fort Lauderdale. No Sunrise police officer has killed a suspect since at least the late 1970s, he said, and the city was incorporated in 1961.