JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — The sister of a woman who was shot and killed Friday by Hamburg Police was arrested following a series of incidents that happened Saturday night in Jamestown.
Brandi R. Haight, 33, has been charged with assault, two counts of burglary, criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest, criminal mischief, and petit larceny, Jamestown Police said Sunday. She was being held pending arraignment.
The sequence of events involving Haight began around 10 p.m. Saturday, when Jamestown Police officers responded to a southside address following a report of an assault with a knife. An exact street or address was not provided.
When officers arrived, they found a woman inside a residence with cuts to her face. Police allege that Haight had kicked in the victim's door, grabbed a knife from the kitchen, then stabbed the victim in the face, causing a severe cut.
Haight left the scene before officers arrived, according to Jamestown Police, who eventually spotted her in a vehicle elsewhere in the city. She allegedly fled the vehicle and resisted arrest.
Haight is being held in Jamestown City Jail.
Hamburg Police said on Saturday said that 36-year-old Lisa Haight of Jamestown was the person who was declared dead at the scene of an officer-involved shooting on Willett Road. That's where police were called to investigate a burglary shortly past 10:30 a.m. Friday.
Police in Hamburg also said they looked into a "violent attack on a private transport van" that happened on the New York State Thruway. Police claimed that Lisa Haight, before the Friday morning police shooting, "repeatedly and without provocation stabbed a passenger in that van, causing extensive serious physical injuries to the victim."
New York Attorney General Letitia James released a statement Friday night about the Hamburg shooting, saying that the state had opened an investigation and that a knife had been recovered at the scene by Hamburg Police officers.