A woman armed with a kitchen knife was fatally shot by police officers Tuesday after slashing a 3-year-old boy in a shopping cart outside an Omaha, Nebraska, Walmart, authorities said.

The woman, identified by police as Noemi Guzman, 31, was shot after refusing to drop the knife and then cutting the boy, according to an Omaha Police Department press release.

The boy was reunited with his guardian and taken to the hospital for injuries that were not considered life-threatening, police said.

… Store surveillance footage showed Guzman shoplifting the knife from inside the store and then approaching the child and his guardian and brandishing the knife, according to police.

Police said Guzman forced the guardian to walk ahead of the cart while the little boy remained inside, directing the guardian through the store and into the parking lot, where officers arrived shortly thereafter.