Actress Vanessa Marquez has been shot and killed by police in Los Angeles after they were reportedly called to make a welfare check on her.
Lt Joe Mendoza told the South Pasadenan that police had been called about a woman suffering from seizures.
He said as police started talking to the former ER regular, 49, she pulled out what he says looked like a real gun at which point she was shot at least once in the torso by an officer.
"At the time [of the shooting] there was an LA County mental health clinician here with the officers," Lt Mendoza said. "They began to communicate with her, she became very uncooperative and during that contact she armed herself with a handgun, she pointed it at the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred."
She was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead there.
