Officer justified in killing Nancy King woman in jail lobby after making bomb threats

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New documents and video released by Spokane County Detention Services are giving details into what lead up to the shooting death of a 70-year-old woman outside the Spokane County Jail in December 2020.

Nancy King was shot and killed by Spokane County Detention Services Corrections Officer Sgt. Justin White after she pulled a knife on him while they were talking at the entrance to the jail lobby on Dec. 4, 2020. White was found to be justified in his use of force by the Spokane County Prosecutor’s Office.

In a public records request, KREM 2 obtained surveillance video of the shooting, the police response following the incident and the report that was written by Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell more than three months after the shooting.

Both the video and Haskell’s report give insight into what King was doing before she went to the Spokane County Jail, how quickly the incident escalated and Sgt. White’s description of what happened.

Prior to the shooting, the report says King called in two bomb threats, one at Frontier Behavioral Health at 4:45 p.m. and the other at the Emergency Room at Deaconess Hospital at 6:50 p.m. Both phone calls were determined to be originated from a room at the Ramada Inn, where King was staying

When officers responded to King’s room, she refused to answer the door. Officers who responded said they learned King was contacted by the Spokane Police Department Behavioral Health Unit several weeks prior. They provided her a hotel room and had her talk to a counselor.

According to the report, officers believed there was a possible mental health issue. Spokane police requested a Designated Crisis Responder but the request was denied. DCRs are provided to the city through an agreement with Frontier Behavioral Health. When officers contacted the crisis line, officers were told they weren’t going to respond because they “did not believe her threats were credible, given the multiple threats in the past and the fact that was 70 years old and had no reasonable capacity to carry out her threats,” the report says.

“We did everything we could to get mental health involved but they refused to respond,” one officer said

Crisis responders are separate from SPD’s Behavioral Health Unit and are a more advanced team provided by Frontier.

"It's not uncommon for individuals to call 911 multiple times a day with certain threats or reports of harm. Not often do they carry out their said threats," Spokane Police Sgt. Jay Kernkamp said.

Officers worked for an hour to contact King in her hotel room but she didn’t respond. While officers were still investigating the bomb threats at the Ramada Inn, a shots fired call came in over the radio.

The report says King left the Ramada Inn at 7:15 p.m. and arrived at the Spokane County Jail at 7:44 p.m.

According to the woman working the front desk, King was repeatedly asking to come inside and was told she couldn’t due to COVID restrictions. King then banged on the door and rang the buzzer repeatedly

The woman working the front desk called for an officer to come down and speak to her

Surveillance video shows White going to the front door of the jail lobby and opening the door. Less than 30 seconds later, King had pulled a knife and White had fired three shots at her.

White’s account of the shooting, as detailed in Haskell’s report, King pulled the knife on him after he empathized with her over the COVID restrictions.

“It shocked and surprised me,” White wrote

White quickly backs up and fails to close the lobby door. King walks through the door and you can clearly see she’s holding something in her right hand and pointing it at White.

“Fearing for my life and knowing I could not back up much further due to the obstacles behind me, I fired my duty weapon at the woman. I could not tell whether the first shot hit her, but she continued moving toward me with the knife. I fired a second shot. I could not tell if the second shot hit her; again, she continued coming toward me with the knife. I fired a third time and almost immediately tripped over a table and fell backwards to the floor. I got up as quickly as I could, prepared to fire my weapon at her again if she were still approaching and threatening to attack me,” White wrote.

White said in the report that he told King to drop the knife at a minimum of twice and she had a ‘determined look on her face.’

About two minutes after the shooting, corrections officers begin life-saving measures but King died at the scene. A knife with a 3-4 inch blade was recovered from the scene, according to the report.