A 45-year-old woman was listed in critical but stable condition at The Queen's Medical Center this morning after she allegedly lunged at a police officer with a metal rod and a meat skewer, and was shot at least once in the abdomen.

The woman's age was initially listed as 35.

Police Maj. Frank Fujii said three officers were sent to an area near the corner of South King Street and Kalakaua Avenue shortly before 2 a.m. after a private security officer called to report the woman was acting erratically.

When the officers arrived, they found the woman holding the rod and pick and tried to persuade her to put them down, Fujii said.

The items the woman was holding were subsequently described as a 14-inch metal rod and an 18-inch metal meat skewer.

At one point, the woman stepped onto King Street and one of the officers approached her and tried to convince her to get back on the sidewalk, Fujii said.

The woman then lunged at the officers, one of whom used a Taser while the other fired two shots from his service handgun, one of which struck the woman in the abdomen.

"She was taken to an area hospital in critical condition," Fujii said. The woman was later identified as a 45-year-old Oahu resident with no local address.

Police have initiated three first-degree terroristic threatening cases against the woman for allegedly threatening the police officers and a second-degree terroristic threatening case for alleged threats made against the private security officer.

The officer who shot the woman is a 10-year veteran of the force and has been placed on administrative leave, pending an internal review of the incident, which is standard procedure in such cases, Fujii said.