Cops Struggle with Woman Who Says She Wants to Kill Herself

A 28-year-old Norwalk woman entered the lobby of Norwalk Police headquarters at 1:09 a.m. today with a knife and said she was going to kill herself with it, police said.

Police gave this account of the incident:

The woman then went to her jeep in the parking lot behind the station. When police caught up with her, the windows were locked and the woman started making movements that looked like she was slashing her wrists.

Police began hitting the windows hard enough to break them in order to get to her, and she began to have a change of heart: "Please don't break my window," she said, and she rolled it down.

But she repeatedly begged police to shoot her.

As Detective William Maloney began talking with the woman, other police noticed that the knife on her lap had fallen to the floor. Another police officer opened a car door and grabbed it.

The woman was taken into custody and transported to the psychiatric ward at Norwalk Hospital. Although she had made moves that looked like she was slashing her wrists, they were not cut.

Seven officers and two supervisors were involved in the incident.

Various burglaries

Several burglaries were reported to police in recent days. Police gave these accounts, based on statements from people reporting the incidents:

• Eight chain saws, each valued at $600, were stolen from unlocked trucks at Bruce Paulie's Tree Care business, 6 Price St. The thefts occurred sometime between 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
• Someone broke into a house on Fort Point Street and stole some copper fixtures, damaging the property, a real estate agent reported at 2:14 p.m. A police spokesman did not have information on when the burglary occurred or how the house was entered.
• Sometime between 9 and 11 p.m. Sunday, a cell phone was stolen from inside a pickup truck parked behind the N.E.O.N. (Norwalk Economic Opportunity Now) building at 98 South Main St. The victim said the truck had been unlocked.
• An $800 laptop was reported missing from a home on Fairfield Avenue Monday evening. The laptop was on a couch when the owner left home at 4:30 p.m., and it was gone when the owner returned at 11:30 p.m. There was no evidence of a forced entry into the home and nothing else in the home was reported missing. The owner lives in the home with her children.