FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- Authorities arrested a woman on Wednesday in connection with a Cumberland County shooting involving a deputy last month.

On Nov. 25, around 6:30 p.m., the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office responded to a domestic call in the 6700 block of Camden Road in Fayetteville.

When deputies got there, they said they came across a person with a knife, later named as Dorothy Lakay Simpkins, 46, of Fayetteville. The deputy instructed her to drop the knife, but Simpkins lunged toward the deputy with the knife, CCSO said. That's when the deputy shot Simpkins, who was taken to a hospital for treatment.

Simpkins was charged Wednesday with assault with a deadly weapon on a family member and felony assault with a deadly weapon on a government official.

She made her first

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