Woman armed with knife shot by Miami police, according to her roommate

MIAMI - Miami police shot and killed a woman overnight after she allegedly threatened her roommate with a knife and attacked officers.

Hamid Hamidi, who said he was the woman's roommate, said he called 911 because she was threatening him with a knife. He said she thought he was working with a group of people to go after her and confronted him in his room.

"She was accusing me of all sorts of stuff and then she wanted to, she had a knife and I felt threatened," he said.

Hamidi said she suffers from a mental health issue and this was not the first time it has happened.

When police arrived at their residence at NE 2nd Avenue and 25th Street, Hamidi said they were trying to get both sides of the story when she "charged" them.

"She charged them with a knife, I could see in the shadows," he said. "And that's when they had to defend themselves because they did give her many warnings of you know, stopping, and please do not come forward and all of that, and she regardless just charged at them and she was shot."

"I was watching a movie and I heard like three gunshots. It was like pop, pop, pop," said Aurora Yerich who lives nearby.

"I heard three shots pop off and I came to check it out and I saw mad cops coming down the street," said Gabriel Shanti.

Hamidi said he's now struggling with the decision to call 911 since he normally handled situations like this by himself. He said he questioned what would have happened if he hadn't made the call.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has launched an investigation. Per policy, the FDLE takes over an investigation when a law enforcement officer is involved in a shooting.

Miami police and the FDLE have not confirmed Hamidi's recounting of what happened.