WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The Georgetown women’s basketball team has been criticized by some for a Sept. 20 tweet mourning former player Sydney Wilson’s death at the age of 33, after video recently emerged showing Wilson was shot on Sept.

Georgetown University's women's basketball team is facing backlash for honoring a former player who was fatally shot after attacking a cop.

In the same breath, Wilson unveils a kitchen knife and lunges at the officer. Liu dodges Wilson’s first attack and quickly backs up. The woman, clearly not in her right mental state, follows the officer to the end of the dead-end hallway before Liu pulls out his gun, points it at her, and repeatedly tells her to “back up.”

Former Georgetown University basketball player, Sydney Wilson, was shot and killed by a police officer in self-defense. Sydney Wilson, 33, who stood 6'5" (1.96 m), was a member of

The Georgetown Hoyas women’s basketball team was slammed on social media for a post it shared mourning the loss of a former player after police bodycam footage was released. The team remembered Sydney Wilson in a post on Sept. 20 after she was fatally shot in an incident with police.

Newly released body camera footage shows a Fairfax County officer fatally shooting a woman during a welfare check in Reston, Virginia.