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Police investigates murder of Tanesha Melbourne-Blake

Source: Dinendra Haria/WENN / WENN

Actress Vanessa Marquez, who is best known for the role of Nurse Wendy Goldman on the first three seasons of ER from 1994 to 1997, was shot and killed by police on Thursday afternoon. The 49-year-old had been subject to a welfare check by the landlord at her South Pasadena apartment, who claimed that she had been experiencing medical issues including seizures, and appeared to be “gravely disabled.”

When police showed up at the scene however, she allegedly became uncooperative and combative, pointing a handgun at officers, according to South Pasadena Police Department Lt. Joe Mendoza, who spoke to the local South Pasadenan paper:

“At the time [of the shooting] there was an LA County mental health clinician here with the officers,” Mendoza said. “They began to communicate with her, she became very uncooperative and during that contact she armed herself with a handgun, she pointed it at the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred.”

Marquez was reportedly shot “at least once” in the torso, and was later proclaimed dead at the hospital. Officers later recovered the weapon, which was discovered to have been a BB gun that was made to resemble a semi-automatic handgun.

In addition to ER, Marquez had TV and film credits that included SeinfeldMalcolm & EddieMelrose Place as well as the 1988 true story drama Stand And Deliver; but had not acted much since the late ’90s.

 

READ MORE: Uproxx.com

Article Courtesy of Uproxx

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Second Picture Courtesy of Dinendra Haria and WENN

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