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   From: daily.beaner@gazette.com   
      
   Vanessa Marquez, who starred on "ER" as nurse Wendy Goldman, was   
   shot and killed by South Pasadena, California, police in her   
   home on Thursday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department   
   said. The 49-year-old actress pointed what appeared to be a   
   handgun at officers before they shot her, the sheriff's   
   department said in a statement.   
      
   South Pasadena police officers conducting a welfare check in an   
   apartment complex Thursday afternoon found Marquez having   
   seizures, the sheriff's department said. In a press conference,   
   Lt. Joe Mendoza of the sheriff's department's homicide bureau   
   told reporters that Marquez was "gravely disabled," according to   
   the South Pasadenan.   
      
   The sheriff's department said authorities attempted to offer   
   Marquez medical care for over an hour and a half.   
      
   "At the time [of the shooting] there was an LA County mental   
   health clinician here with the officers," Mendoza said,   
   according to the newspaper. "They began to communicate with her,   
   she became very uncooperative and during that contact she armed   
   herself with a handgun, she pointed it at the officers and an   
   officer-involved shooting occurred."   
      
   Marquez was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.   
   Police determined that Marquez had been holding a BB gun that   
   "resembled a semi-automatic handgun," according to Mendoza.   
      
   Marquez acted on "ER" from 1994 to 1997. In 2017, she accused   
   George Clooney of hurting her career during their "ER" days,   
   saying he helped "blacklist" her when she reportedly spoke up   
   about alleged harassment on the show. Clooney denied the   
   accusation.   
      
   Marquez also appeared on "Seinfeld," "Melrose Place" and others.   
   She also appeared on a 2005 episode of A&E's "Intervention" to   
   address her depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and   
   shopping addiction.   
      
   Marquez's death is under investigation, which is common for   
   police-involved shootings.   
      
   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vanessa-marquez-former-er-star-shot-   
   dead-by-police/   
      
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