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Two FTPD Officers Defuse Situation With Distraught Girl Holding Knife

June 22, 2017 Crime News

Two township police officers are credited with defusing a tense situation with a distraught 11-year-old girl who had locked herself in her bedroom with a knife.

At about 8:30 p.m. June 20, police received a 9-1-1 call about a person having a psychological crisis, according to a press release from the township Police Department.

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