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71岁女子在奥兰治港警局大厅开枪后死亡
一名71岁女子在档案办公室开了一枪，随后在室外中枪，一天后死亡——其动机与警方使用的武力均在审查之中。
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周五宣布琳达·琼·克罗托（Linda Jean Croteau）死亡的消息，使一起周四上午的枪击事件变得更加漫长、更难了结。2026年9月4日，奥兰治港警察局表示，前一天被该局警员开枪击中的这名71岁女子已在医院死亡。这为她持枪走进该局总部后开始的“情况危急”阶段画上句号，同时也开启了一个更缓慢的追问过程：事件为何发生，对她使用的武力是否与威胁相称。3 5 11
关键事实
事件始于2026年9月3日周四上午8:30左右，地点是位于佛罗里达州奥兰治港S. Clyde Morris Blvd. 4545号的奥兰治港警察局总部。8 13 时间戳为上午8:35的警局监控录像显示，克罗托进入对公众开放的档案科，右手可见一把手枪。5 9 她与平民职员交涉，挥舞武器，将枪指向一扇标有“证物”的门，并于上午8:38朝财物与证物区的职员开了一枪。5 9 职员寻找掩护，其中一名平民大喊让她放下枪，随后她仍持枪走了出去。5
从进入警局到室外对峙，整个过程持续约五分钟。5 在停车场，约六名警员将她拦截。1 在她多次无视放下武器的命令后，其中三人开枪。1 5 警员开枪，在她倒地、枪脱手时停火；当她伸手去够地上的枪时再次开枪，随后持盾牌上前施救。5 部分报道称室外交火中射出十余发子弹。5 她被送往医院时情况危急，并于次日即2026年9月4日周五死亡。11 15
9月3日的五分钟
没有发生的事情与已发生的事情同样重要。警方表示，没有警员、职员或平民被击中——在一座公众可进入的建筑内发生的武装袭击中，其他伤者为零。5 8 这一结果值得注意，因为首当其冲的并非战术小组，而是一间档案办公室。局长本人的警告把这一点说得很清楚：前台档案科是由平民职员负责的办公室，其员工不像宣誓警员那样配枪或受过训练。5 一名手持手枪的女子，在三分钟内可以在满是手无寸铁之人的房间里随意行动，却只开了一枪——不知是枪法太差还是侥幸——随后又走回室外。
相关记录也需要先加以更正才能被理解。最初的报道称她是一名约70岁的女子，其姓氏被写成Crotteau或Couto等不同形式。1 6 警方后来确认她的身份为71岁的琳达·琼·克罗托（Linda Jean Croteau），当地媒体将这一写法作为权威版本采用。2 3 4 她住在奥兰治港的一个公寓小区，距警局约七分钟车程。5 一篇早期报道称她情况稳定，但她送医时情况危急，并于周五死亡。12 11
最后几秒仍存争议
是什么驱使一名71岁老人持枪走进警察局，目前仍无定论。警察局长曼努埃尔·马里诺（Manuel Marino）表示，调查人员尚未确定动机，也不清楚该局此前是否与她有过任何接触。2 6 家人和熟人描述的是她近来的个人困扰，而非对警方的不满：一名室友告诉《代托纳比奇新闻报》，克罗托最近失去了丈夫加里·克罗托（Gary Croteau），这给她带来了很大的情绪波动；一名继子则表示，丧夫之后她一直过得很艰难。13 15 一位邻居形容这对夫妇待人友善。15 警方尚未证实她有任何有记录的精神健康诊断，也未证实她对该警局有任何具体不满。5
一名痛失亲人的老年女子朝手无寸铁的文员开了一枪，然后走回室外面对持枪警员——视频让我们不得不同时评判悲痛、威胁与武力。
对峙的最后几秒成为争议焦点。目击者——街对面的建筑工人——描述称，在枪声响起之前，她已经扔下枪并坐了下来。5 而已公布的视频和局长的说法则称，她在最初被拦截时仍握着武器，后来又伸手去够地上的枪。5 7 远处目击者的记忆与近距离俯拍镜头之间的这一差异，如今成为审查的核心，因为它决定了第一轮射击，尤其是她倒地后的第二轮射击，究竟是在应对持续存在的威胁，还是在惩罚一名已经倒下的女子。
9月4日，该局本着透明原则并为帮助消除错误信息，公布了警局监控录像以及执法记录仪的视频和音频，这使得目击者说法与官方说法之间的差异得以被直接审视。5 9 画面显示：她右手持枪进入；与职员交涉、开出一枪、职员寻找掩护；她仍持枪走出；警员多次命令她放下枪；她继续向警员移动；她倒地、枪脱手；她伸手去够；随后警员持盾牌上前施救。5 9 对于人在压力下的感知，理性的人仍可能存在分歧，但他们已无须再去猜测事件的先后顺序。
法律层面的结局已经确定，官方调查则尚未结束。由于克罗托在任何案件进入法庭之前死亡，她未被提起刑事指控，死亡时也未处于被捕状态。5 开枪的三名警员尚未被公开姓名。5 佛罗里达州执法局正在主导这起警员涉枪事件的调查。5 大厅至少关闭至9月8日周二，而局长对没有武装的平民前台办公室表示担忧，该办公室在设计上从未考虑过承受枪击。5 在所查阅的报道中，未发现该警局此前发生过类似的枪击或武装袭击事件。5
未知
- 其动机或此前与奥兰治港警方有无接触，均未公开确认。
- 目击者关于她已空手坐下的说法，能否与显示她持枪和伸手够枪的视频相吻合。
后续
- 佛罗里达州执法局是否会公布涉事警员姓名，并认定两轮射击正当。
- 大厅重新开放后，平民档案职员将获得何种保护。
播出原貌 18 行
- A 71-year-old woman opened fire inside a police station and died a day after officers shot her.
- The attack struck a public-facing records office where staff are unarmed, and it ended with three officers firing in a parking lot.
- The mystery is what drove her to walk in armed — and whether the officers' response matched the threat.
- The attack came on Thursday morning, September 3rd, at the Port Orange Police Department headquarters on South Clyde Morris Boulevard. Surveillance video shows her entering the public records section at 8:35 a.m. with a handgun in her right hand. She engaged civilian staff, brandished the weapon, pointed it toward a door marked evidence, and at 8:38 fired a single round toward employees in the property-and-evidence area. Staff took cover, and one civilian yelled at her to drop the gun. She then walked out still armed.
- The station's own cameras recorded the entire episode, from her entry to the single shot, then her walk out still armed. In the parking lot, about six officers surrounded her, and three fired after she ignored commands to drop the weapon. She fell, but reached for the gun again, drawing a second volley. Officers then moved in with a shield to provide aid. She was taken to the hospital, where she died the next day.
- The entire episode from entry to the outside confrontation lasted about five minutes. No officers, employees, or civilians were hit.
- Despite an armed attack inside a public building, no one else was hurt.
- Some reporting placed more than a dozen rounds in the outside exchange, though the exact count is not yet confirmed.
- The first reports used a rough age and two different spellings of her name. The department later confirmed she was 71 and her name is Linda Jean Croteau. What remains unresolved is motive and any prior contact, and there is a dispute over whether she had already dropped her gun when the first shots were fired.
- The dispute over the final seconds is now central. Construction workers across the street described something different from the video.
- Construction workers across the street said she had already dropped the gun and sat down before any shots. The released video and the chief's account say she was still holding it when first confronted and later reached toward it on the ground. That discrepancy is now central to the review.
- The officers' own account is detailed in a clear use-of-force sequence.
- The officers' account flows through clear steps: repeated commands, the first volley when she keeps coming, the fall and drop, then a reach for the gun that draws a second volley, and finally a shield used to provide medical aid.
- The department released the surveillance and body-camera footage on September 4, which is what allowed the gap between witness accounts and the official version to be examined directly.
- Family and acquaintances described recent personal distress, including the recent loss of her husband, which caused emotional turmoil. A stepson said she had been struggling since the loss, but no documented mental-health diagnosis or specific grievance against the station has been confirmed.
- She lived at a Port Orange apartment complex about seven minutes' drive from the station. An early report described her condition as stable, but she was in critical condition when taken to the hospital and died.
- The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is leading the officer-involved shooting investigation. Because she died before any case reached court, no criminal charges were filed, and the three officers who fired have not been publicly named. The records section remains closed until at least Tuesday, September 8, and the chief has raised concern that its civilian staff are not armed or trained like sworn officers.
- As of today, no motive has been established, and the full FDLE review remains the official process. The question of why she walked into that station armed, and whether the officers' response was justified, are still open.
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- Linda Jean Croteau shot by Port Orange police - WFTV
- Port Orange Police release video of lobby shooting involving 71-year-old woman - WFTV
- Florida woman opens fire inside Port Orange Police Department lobby: chief | Fox News
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