Neighbors react after deputy shoots woman in Hope Mills: 'Never seen anything like it'

HOPE MILLS, N.C. (WTVD) -- Cumberland County residents say they are still trying to process the scene that unfolded Tuesday night after a sheriff's deputy shot a woman during a domestic violence call on Camden Road.

"We knew something had happened. We didn't know what had happened," resident Priscilla Dudley said. She told ABC11 she was sitting on her porch when emergency lights filled the street. "It was like Christmas lights, blue lights. Blue lights... There were police and ambulances everywhere."

According to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office , deputies responded to the home in Hope Mills for a domestic violence call. When they arrived, authorities say they encountered a woman armed with a knife and ordered her to drop it. Deputies say the situation escalated when she refused