East County News Service
November 19, 2019 (Lemon Grove) – A woman has been hospitalized after a disturbing outburst in Lemon Grove Sunday shortly before 11 a.m. Several residents called to report the woman was yelling that she had a gun and that someone had stolen her children. She reportedly banged on the door of a stranger’s home in the 2600 block of Mercury Drive.
According to the Sheriff’s media relations department, “When deputies arrived, a 24-year-old transient matching the description of these calls became assaultive towards them. Deputies were forced to use a less lethal bean bag round on the woman to take her into custody. The woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment.”
Tom Lemon told ECM, “I heard a person screaming, went out to see what it was. A neighbor lady was at her door screaming at someone inside, he came out and she was still screaming and cussing. He got in his SUV and started to drive, she followed him.” He said the woman went down the street to San Miguel Avenue, Now in front of my house and still yelling and then down the street, still shouting, to San Miguel Ave “where she took her clothes off.”
Sheriff’s deputies from the Lemon Grove substation, along with the Lemon Grove Fire Department and AMR ambulance service responded to the incident.