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Tense Standoff With Knife-Wielding Hackensack Woman Ends Peacefully: Police
A suicidal woman pulled a kitchen knife and pointed it at herself during a tense standoff before Hackensack police peacefully disarmed her, authorities said. Responding to an attempted-suicide call in the 300 block of Prospect Avenue, Sgt. Franklin Bay and Officers Alexander Reyes, Matt Tedesco and Anthony Mattalian found the door to the woman's apartment barricaded, said Capt. Michael Antista, the officer in charge of the department. Reyes and Bay established a rapport with the woman, but she was unwilling to get help and backed away during the conversation, the captain said. With several…