New Hampshire woman killed by police during car chase

Wendy Lawrence, 45, was shot and killed by a state trooper Monday night. She was shot four times and died from a gunshot wound to her chest. She was pulled over by a state trooper for driving erratically, and drove away from the officer after giving him a non-driver’s license ID. The circumstances surrounding her death are being investigated, according to Fox News.

Lawrence’s car she was driving when she was killed by the state trooper. 9/30/13 Photo Credit: MyFoxBoston.com

“She never hated police. She was always afraid of police, deathly scared,” Gary Boulac, Lawrence’s ex-husband, told the paper “If a cop started to talk to her, she’d start shaking.” Boulac lives around the corner from the scene of the shooting.

Even though Lawrence had trouble with the law, the number of times she was shot seems excessive. New information is still coming out about this situation, but so far it appears as if the state trooper shot Lawrence even though she was defenseless. It is possible she had something to hide, but there are no articles that say she tried to attack the trooper. Witnesses for the Union Leader described hearing as many as 10 shots go through Lawrence’s car. Her death is currently being reviewed as a homicide.

Tornado hits Puyallup, Washington

A rare tornado hit Puyallup, WA on Monday morning, destroying buildings and tipping a train over, as reported by King5 News. The tornado was an EF1, 75 yards wide and was on the ground for about five minutes traveling at 110 mph. Even with all the damage caused within such a short time, no injuries were reported.

An old barn in Puyallup, WA destroyed by the tornado. 9/30/2013 Photo Credit: Clark County Fire District No. 3

“My first instinct, I thought it was an earthquake. Honestly, I never heard of weather like this, at least in Washington state,” said Kirk Ransden, who was inside Northwest Door when a tornado ripped across the factory, the length of several football fields.
“We were in the building and it sounded like a vacuum starting. It was really loud, kinda high pitched. A big boom and I saw a ripple through the ceiling and then everything came through, then water starting pouring,” he said.

Although there were no physical injuries from the tornado in Washington, it injured the city in another way. The amount of damage to buildings and homes  will take months to fix. Not to mention, the evacuation and destruction of the Northwest Door Factory and power outages throughout the area.
Washington has tornadoes every year, but they are normally small  and barely cause damage. However, the biggest one that has caused deaths occurred in 1972 in Vancouver, WA, according to the Weather Channel.