Theresa Cram

Deadly force

Sgt. Kevin Hiller and officer Lisa Medina shot Theresa Cram at about 9 a.m. on the sidewalk outside her home as Cram allegedly charged toward Medina with a knife. Her roommate had called police and said Cram held a knife to her throat. Cram had a history of mental-health problems, her brother said, and had spent time in a residential mental hospital for schizophrenia. Cram did not respond to officers' nine requests to drop the knife, according to recordings. Before Cram's death, it had been 13 years since an officer in Jackson County used deadly force.