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		</div><h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Former</strong> <strong>ER star Vanessa Marquez, was killed in an officer-involved shooting in South Pasadena Thursday afternoon</strong></span></h6>
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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Just before noon on Thursday South Pasadena officers and a mental health specialist were called to that location for a welfare check by the woman&#8217;s landlord who was concerned about her well-being</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Sheriff&#8217;s deputies said the 49-year-old woman was suffering from problems of an eating disorder and was having a seizure as officers arrived</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>They spoke to her for more than 90 minutes and tried to offer medical care </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>At one point, she became combative and was waving a BB gun around that officers believed to be a semi-automatic handgun</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Officers opened fire, she was hit in the torso, and later died at the hospital</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Marquez was best known for playing nurse Wendy Goldman on the medical drama ER, starring George Clooney </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Police say they had been to that home on multiple occasions in the pas</strong><strong>t</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-298810" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vanessa-Marquez.jpg" alt="Vanessa Marquez.JPG" width="648" height="651" />Former ER actress Vanessa Marquez, was shot and killed by police during a welfare check in South Pasadena, California on Thursday </strong></h6>
<div>Police in California who were summoned to perform a welfare check on a female tenant by her landlord on Thursday, was shot and killed her after they say she threatened them with a realistic-looking BB gun.<br />
The woman was later identified as former ER star Vanessa Marquez. The actress</div>
<div>a former regular on the popular TV drama ER, also had several film credits, including “Stand and Deliver.”<br />
The incident began unfolding just before noon when South Pasadena police officers responded to a home in the 1100 block of Fremont Avenue after getting a call about a 49-year-old woman suffering from seizures.<br />
Sheriff’s Homicide Lt Joe Mendoza said the woman, later identified by sources and commenters on Twitter as Marquez, had eating disorders and appeared to be gravely disabled.</div>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-298817" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vanessa-Marquez-crime-scene-3.jpg" alt="Vanessa Marquez crime scene 3.jpg" width="1200" height="900" />Police crime scene tape cordon&#8217;s off the home after an officer involved shooting of a woman after she pulled a realistic-looking BB gun on them during a welfare check</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-298812" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vanessa-Marquez-crime-scene-2-1.jpg" alt="Vanessa Marquez crime scene 2.JPG" width="788" height="453" /><strong>South Pasedena cops arrived with at Marquez&#8217;s apt accompanied by psych clinicians after her landlord called them expressing concerns for the tenant </strong></h6>
<div>Three officers and a mental health care worker who was summoned to the scene spent 90 minutes trying to administer aid to her, during which time the woman was allegedly &#8216;extremely uncooperative.&#8217;</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">At around 2pm, police say she grabbed a semiautomatic handgun and pointed it at the officers, prompting them to open fire on her.<br />
As <a class="class" href="https://southpasadenan.com/breaking-news-officer-involved-shooting-south-pasadena-police-department/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">The South Pasadenan</a> first reported, she was struck at least once in the torso and taken to a hospital, where she died of her injuries. However, the woman&#8217;s gun that was seized from the house turned out to be a replica of a semi-automatic handgun. Lt Mendoza said.<br />
Police say they had been to Marquez‘s home on many occasions in the past, reported <a class="class" href="https://abc7.com/woman-killed-in-south-pasadena-officer-involved-shooting/4102352/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">KABC</a>. On Thursday morning, it was the her landlord who summoned them after becoming concerned for her well-being.</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-298808" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vanessa-Marquez.4.jpg" alt="Vanessa Marquez.4" width="768" height="502" />Marquez [L-R], had been vocal about her many health problems on social media, earlier revealed that she was terminally ill with celiac disease, suffered from pulmonary embolism and seizures </strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">The Sheriff&#8217;s Homicide Bureau has launched an investigation into the officer-involved shooting.<br />
Marquez is best known for playing nurse Wendy Goldman on the popular NBC medical drama ER starring George Clooney between 1994 and 1997.<br />
Last year, Marquez publicly accused the Oscar-winning actor and director of playing helping blacklist her after she spoke out about alleged harassment on the set of ER, including being subjected to racist and sexist remarks.<br />
Clooney responded by insisting that he had no idea Marquez had been blacklisted and had played no part in it.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-298806" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vanessa-Marquez.2.jpg" alt="Vanessa Marquez.2" width="636" height="949" />Marquez is best known for playing nurse Wendy Goldman on the popular NBC medical drama ER starring George Clooney between 1994 and 1997. She recently claimed Clooney got her kicked off the show and blacklisted after standing up against discrimination and sexism</strong></h6>
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<div>Marquez made bombshell headlines in October 2017 when she accused Clooney of helping blacklist her after she spoke out about being harassed on the set of ER</div>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Marquez, who was Mexican-American, claimed she was the target of racist and sexist remarks on the set of the medical drama.<br />
Marquez had alleged she was groped on the set of “ER” well before the #MeToo movement last fall. She claimed that when she complained to the producers, she was exiled: “I was blacklisted and my career was over at 26,” she <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vanessarmarquez/posts/1664531350240533?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAAsJOgXyOHiZS1adHuiZxwepI4eM2PWQsEoTby3aiZOz21si_6Tv9lCwUgmb6ofJXgrhVqkAvIiCMnmhd_UPlP9JPjF8KW3_XJQBhhO_nWifqC_1hHdk1MSPrlGny4PVKI9J0OI-38NsM26Q20TYUzZKfxOUPgmDanNfVM6Uz9WBQCkMt6BA&;__tn__=K-R" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">wrote on Facebook</a> in January 2017.<br />
“Why are women afraid to speak up ‘at the time?’ Because everything they’ve ever worked for is RIPPED away from them. For being a goddamn victim and expecting protection.”</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;I had nothing to do with casting,&#8217; Clooney said in a statement. &#8216;I was an actor and only an actor. If she was told I was involved in any decision about her career then she was lied to. The fact that I couldn’t affect her career is only surpassed by the fact that I wouldn’t.&#8217;</p>
<h6 class="mol-para-with-font"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-298807" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vanessa-Marquez.3.jpg" alt="Vanessa Marquez.3" width="634" height="378" /><br />
<strong>Marquez hit her career peak on ER. After leaving the show she appeared in three episodes of the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle in 1999, followed by a few more roles in TV films and shorts</strong></h6>
<p class="mol-para-with-font">Marquez had been vocal on social media about her struggles with various health problems, including what she described as terminal celiac disease, pulmonary embolism, osteoporosis and seizures.<br />
She posted her final status update on Facebook on August 8, accusing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey of hypocrisy for previously kicking her off Twitter for &#8216;naming his friend George Clooney at the beginning of the #Metoo movement in October&#8217;, but allowing the incendiary InfoWars host and notorious conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to remain on the platform.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-298814" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Vanessa-Marquez-tweet-on-George-Clooney-1.jpg" alt="Vanessa Marquez' tweet on George Clooney 1.jpg" width="674" height="356" />Marquez made headlines in October 2017 when she accused Clooney of helping blacklist her after she spoke out about being harassed on the set of ER</strong></h6>
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<div class="mobile-gallery-icon">Friends and acquaintances say Marquez was a kind and talented woman who was beloved by friends, but who had battled health issues as of late.<br />
The 49-year-old has also been vocal about her many health problems on social media. She revealed that she was terminally ill with celiac disease, suffered from pulmonary embolism and seizures</div>
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Marquez was a long-time member of TCM Party &#8211; a group of cinephiles passionate about classic movies.<br />
Other members of the group paid tribute to Marquez on twitter Friday.</span></span></div>
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Actress Vanessa Marquez, 49, is shot dead by cops during a welfare check – Former ER star drew BB gun on Officers and was killed one year after accusing George Clooney of blacklisting her
