Woman with knife shot by deputy says she tried to commit suicide by cop, BSO claims
The Dania Beach woman shot Wednesday when charging at a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy with a knife says she was trying to commit suicide by cop.
BSO says 40-year-old Kim Nguyen Cholak admitted that she made up the story of the knife attack involving another woman to draw deputies to her Dania Beach home and hoped they would use lethal force. While Cholak did get hit directly enough to be stopped, the deputy managed to shoot the 4-foot-10, 106-pound woman such that she was able to be released from Memorial Regional Hospital Wednesday night.
She was booked into Broward County Jail on four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill.
According to BSO, an 11:05 a.m. call brought deputies to the home Cholak and her husband own in the 100 block of Northeast Third Street. They heard one woman had pulled a knife on another. When they went to the house, Nguyen woman came out with a knife “and charged at deputies,” BSO claims, prompting shots from at least one deputy.
This story was originally published February 20, 2019 at 12:30 PM.
