Australian police reported this Wednesday the death of a 95-year-old woman with dementia who was electrocuted by a police officer last week while carrying a knife in a nursing home.

“It is with great sadness that we confirm death claire noland, 95 years old, tonight. Mrs Knowland died peacefully in the hospital,” the NSW Police said in a Facebook post.

Police highlighted the imprint the woman left in her community and elaborated that the family has asked for privacy during these “difficult times.”

He the officer who tasered her After seeking emergency care at a nursing home in the city of Kuma, about 430 kilometers southwest of Sydney, he was suspended from work.

The event took place on Wednesday last week when an unidentified agent with 12 years of experience and his colleague went to nursing home Yallambi received a call that the woman was “armed” with a knife.

When the elderly woman refused to drop the knife and “slowly” approached the officers in walkers, the officer shot her with his stun gun on her chest and back, causing the grandmother, who weighed about 43 kilograms and was 1.57 centimeters tall, to fall and hit her head.

After the incident that shook the country, the old woman was hospitalized. hospital and the authorities launched an investigation.