SPOKANE, Wash. — A woman stabbed a staff member at Westminster Congregational Church's warming shelter in the neck with scissors on Wednesday morning.
Officer John O'Brien with the Spokane Police Department said the woman, later identified as 18-year-old Tayleeanne Guerrero, came into the shelter around 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday and was acting disorderly. Staff allowed her stay and then asked her to leave around 7 a.m.
Guerrero then stabbed a staff member in the neck with a pair of scissors, O'Brien said. The staff member's injuries are not life threatening.
Guerrero was booked into the Spokane County Jail for first degree assault.