Police detain woman with gun in Washougal

A woman waving weapons and making threats from the balcony of a home in Washougal was detained by police and taken to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver for a mental evaluation.

At approximately 9:30 a.m. Monday, Washougal Police responded to a report of a deranged woman at the 1900 Block of North Sixth Avenue. According to Sgt. Brad Chicks, when police arrived they found a woman in her 40s dressed in a bikini waving a rifle and knife, threatening to “shoot and kill people.”