A woman was shot and killed by a Juneau, Alaska, police officer early Christmas morning after she approached officers with a hatchet and refused to put it down, police said.

The incident occurred outside the Breeze In grocery in the Mendenhall Valley, police said. According to a written account by the Juneau Police Department, someone called the department at 5:25 a.m. Wednesday and said a woman was screaming at people and that she had threatened the caller with a hammer.