Video Shows LAPD Shooting Of Woman Who Set Sister's Chatsworth Home Ablaze

CHATSWORTH, CA — Over the holiday weekend, authorities released body-worn camera footage of a woman shot and killed by an officer after she broke into her sister's Chatsworth home armed with a gun and started a fire, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The dramatic video of the Dec. 1 shooting shows police leading the victim away to safety, and entering the backyard of the burning home on North Laramie Avenue. As an officer rounds the narrow corner between the garage and backyard, he sees a woman pointing what appears to be a gun at him. He opens fire and shoots her repeatedly.

The woman, later identified as 63-year-old Lisa Davis of Newbury Park, was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

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The fatal incident unfolded at bout 2 p.m. on Dec. 1 when a woman called 9-1-1 for help

"My sister broke into my house, and she has a gun, and she pepper sprayed me, and I'm locked in the bathroom," the caller tells the 9-1-1 operator.

"Oh My God! She's setting a fire. Call the Fire Department. She set the living room on fire. She's throwing everything into the fire to make it bigger," the caller screams. "She's destroying the house."

When officers arrived on the scene, they found the victim hiding in a neighbor's backyard as flames engulfed her own house.

They ushered her to safety and made their way into the backyard of the burning home. The bodycam footage shows an officer with a rifle making his way between a side wall and the detached garage where he encounters Davis backed up against a block wall, pointing what appears to be a handgun. As he's telling her to show him her hands, he seems to realize midsentence that she is pointing a gun at him, and he shoots her several times at close range.

The officer was later identified as Christopher McCrea of the LAPD's Devonshire division.

No police or firefighters were injured in the incident.

Firefighters were able to put out the fire in 20 minutes, and the LAPD investigation into the shooting remains ongoing.