Sheriff’s deputies in Washington state fatally shot a pregnant Native American woman on Friday after being dispatched to her home for a “wellness check.” Renee Davis was at her home on Muckleshoot tribal lands that evening with two of her three children, her foster sister, Daniella Bargala, told the Seattle Times. The 23-year-old was 5 months pregnant and had depression, according to Bargala. Sgt. Cindi West, a spokeswoman for the King County Sheriff’s Department, told The Huffington Post that Davis sent her boyfriend a text message indicating she was distressed. The sheriff’s department contracts with the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe to provide law enforcement. “Her boyfriend flagged down a deputy who was on patrol and showed him a text she had just sent saying she had a gun and was going to kill herself,” West said. “She also sent a photo of a fresh cut to her arm, and said, in effect ‘this will show you I’m serious.’” What happened next is still unclear. Deputies arrived at Davis’ home around 6:30 p.m., and the encounter ended with Davis being fatally shot by at least one deputy’s bullet. “It’s really upsetting because it was a wellness check,” Bargala told the Seattle Times. “Obviously, she didn’t come out of it well.”

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Law enforcement has released few details about Davis’ interaction with police. The department told HuffPost in a statement that it had received a report saying Davis was “suicidal.” They also allege that she had a handgun: Deputies knocked on the door to the residence repeatedly with no response. Deputies said the children were running around in the house but no one answered the door. Two deputies entered the house to check the welfare of the woman and children. They found the woman inside the house armed with a handgun. Both deputies fired at the woman and she was struck at least once. Aid responded and the woman, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene. The two deputies involved are on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. The sheriff’s office will release more information after those deputies give their statements to investigators, according to the statement. West said neither has any complaints on record. Bargala remembered Davis as a “soft person” who was never violent and loved the outdoors. She had previously worked as a teacher’s aide at a preschool. Native Americans are more likely to be killed by law enforcement than any other racial group in the United States, according to a Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice survey that looked at data from 1999 to 2011. (When the center broke down the groups by race and age, however, African-Americans ages 20 to 24 were the most likely to be killed.) And cases of police violence against Native Americans — along with the #NativeLivesMatter movement ― rarely make the mainstream news, Indian Country Today journalist Simon Moya-Smith noted last year in an interview with Mic. “We’re not entirely on [the mainstream media’s] radar ― maybe for Indian mascots, but for police brutality?” he wrote. “Barely, if at all.”