The children in the apartment, ages one, four and 11, were not hurt and police are trying to determine if they witnessed the shooting.
"Hello, good morning", one of the officers said in the audio.
Two officers had gone to Lyles' apartment on Sunday after she reported a burglary.
Neighbor Lhora Murray, 42, said she heard shots and called the police, unaware that it was Seattle officers who fired their weapons.
Lhora Murray, 42, lives in the apartment directly below Lyles and told the Stranger she often heard yelling from the woman's unit and called security multiple times.
The officer continued to speak to Lyles, who said she left her apartment unlocked when she went out to the store.
According to King County Jail records, Lyles was charged on June 5 for obstruction of a public official and two counts of harassment, but was released conditionally on June 14. However, critics on social media are skeptical, saying that it is understandable a mother would feel protective of her children in the wake of an attempted robbery.
"At some point the 30-year-old female was armed with a knife", Jamieson told reporters. "I could have taken her down", Williams said, overcome with emotion.
The Seattle Police Department has released dash cam audio of the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old Black woman in Magnuson Park over the weekend.
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Through the afternoon detectives with the force investigations team and crime scene investigators were both at the site. Soon after, the confrontation escalated, and officers began shouting at the woman to "get back" before gunshots rang out.
"She started talking all insane about how the officers weren't going to leave and she had a pair of scissors", one officer says.
A dramatic dash-cam audio recording captures the moment Seattle police opened fire on a knife-wielding woman who relatives said was pregnant and suffered from mental-health issues.
Her brother, Domico Jones, also declared that officers didn't have to use lethal force.
Relatives say she had a history of mental illness, was three months along in her pregnancy, and too "tiny" for cops to have felt threatened by her - even if she was holding a knife. "She just told them to call my sister and tell my sister gets here".
"What is she going do to all you police?", Williams demanded.
Police confirmed that three of Lyles' children are with other family members. The recording captured officers speaking to a woman about an Xbox that she said was taken. "The Seattle police shot the wrong one today".
On that day, she finally dropped the shears after two officers drew their guns and repeatedly asked her to do so. Most of the incidents involved people with mental or substance abuse problems, though a court-appointed monitor recently noted that the department has made changes that show significant progress.
The two officers had gone to Lyles' apartment after a call about a burglary.
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