Deputy Shoots Woman After She Allegedly Stabs Her Son

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy shot a Rosemead woman Sunday after she stabbed her 11-year-old son in the chest and then advanced on deputies who came to investigate, a department spokesman said.

Yvette Rios, 31, was shot once in the torso after she “suddenly charged” at deputies with a knife in her hand, said Deputy Cruz Solis.

Rios and her son were airlifted to local hospitals, where both underwent surgery and were in serious but stable condition, Solis said.

Neighbors called deputies to the house just after noon. When deputies arrived, they found the boy bleeding from several stab wounds.

“He told them, ‘My mom stabbed me,’ ” Solis said.

Deputies then forced their way into the house, believing that Rios was inside, possibly with her younger son, Solis said.

Inside, Rios became agitated when deputies sprayed her with pepper spray and then shot her with a nonlethal bean-bag shotgun, Solis said. She came at deputies with “a towel covering an object in her hand,” the deputy said.

He said deputies later determined the object to be a knife, but said they had not yet determined if the knife was used to stab the boy.

After the deputy, whose identity was not released, fired one round at Rios, she ran into another room and deputies searched the rest of the house for other victims, Solis said.

The deputies then left the house and took Rios into custody when she came outside, he said.

“We honestly don’t know” why Rios may have stabbed her son or advanced on deputies, said Solis.

He said two teams of deputies spent the rest of the day at the house--one to investigate the boy’s stabbing and the other to look into the officer-involved shooting to determine if the deputy acted properly.