Police said the woman, whose name was not released, was the only person home at the time, and had lived there for about 17 years.
As the plainclothes Atlanta police officers approached the house about 7 p.m., a woman inside started shooting, striking each of them, said Officer Joe Cobb, a police spokesman. One was hit in the arm, another in a thigh and the third in a shoulder.
The officers were taken to a hospital for treatment, and all three were conscious and alert, police said.
Sarah Dozier, identified as a niece of the woman, told WAGA-TV that there were never any drugs at the house.
"My aunt was in good health. I'm sure she panicked when they kicked that door down," Dozier said. "There was no reason they had to go in there and shoot her down like a dog."
She died again????!
>>A 92-year-old woman was shot to death Tuesday after she fired at three narcotics officers trying to serve a warrant at her house,<<
BTW, she didn't just fire at three officers, she shot all three.
At the moment there are too many inconsistancies in this story. Breaking the door down when there are burglar bars? I can't recall houses with burglar bars that didn't have them on the doors as well, and one isn't going to just break those kind in. Did the shooting start before or after the breakin The old right address problem? Was it or wasn't it? Sneaking up on 92 year old women, could cause an adverse reaction, even it it wasn't considered sneaking. I'm not getting the died again part in post 2, but then if it's a joke, I never was very fast.
The neice also claims the aunt had a gun permit - i.e. no felony convictions. For the video it looks like the door had burgler bars too - I'm guessing the officers may have been delayed getting inside by the bars.
Police say "they were acting on a tip."
Boy, that did't take long, The Johnny Cocraine law firm is representing the family.
The War on Drugs is not about stopping people from getting high, it is about the payroll for those waging it. Follow the money!
"Neighbors and relatives said it must have been a case of mistaken identity."
"As the plainclothes Atlanta police officers approached the house about 7 p.m., a woman inside started shooting, striking each of them..."
Somehow, I don't think that this was a case of mistaken identity.
That's good shootin' for a 92 year old woman.
There are just a few more well-known, but undiscussed, facts
that we know down here: The AJC (our local big city biased commie rag) is giving a great deal of play to the fact that the ATL police have shot some 12 people this past year and of courrrrrsssseeee "it's the cops' fault" without, also of course, offering the true stories of why the shootings happened. ATL is a major drug hub and gangs flourish with that screwball Jackson administration not doing a damn thing. It's so corrupt they can't investigate their own. You think NO is bad? Ain't nuthin' compared to ATL. There is probably a very good chance that that 92 year old woman had family members dealing out of her house and that's probably why the gun was there in the first place. Since all the cops were shot, I'm believing that they tried to keep her from shooting the very best they could, giving her chances they never would have given anyone else.
My husband's police department and every other department in pretty much every county surrounding ATL are absorbing a lot of transfers from the city police because they have HAD it. You can't police one of the most crime ridden cities in the SE with an administration like Jackson's hundcuffing you. From the top, down, it's nothing but corruption, mismanagement, screwups and mistreatment.
As for most of the rest of us? Not too many of us will travel into the city after dark. It's just not safe.
Thanks for posting, especially since I live in Atlanta. This is the first time I've seen it on FR. I went to bed about midnight last night and didn't see it posted.
Well, when I lived in Mableton Ga, back in my early 20's (yes, have past I'm not proud of) we went to an old black woman for our.... stuff (only the mild tobaccy kind). She would pass it through the burglar bars on her front door and you would pass the cash.
Sweet little old lady making bookoo cash.
damn good shooting, you know the agents were all weraing body armor. I wonder if she was actually aiming for the extremities.
What happened to investigative reporting? I'd like to know what kind of firearm she has and also did she just shoot from a standing position, did she dive into a prone one, or perhaps she did a leaping summersault being a chair came up firing and yelling 'eat lead, pigs!' before being taken out.....
"Police said they had the right address."
It was the right address if they wanted to kill a 92 year-old woman and get three cops shot. Sounds like a fouled-up operation to me.
Here's an interesting angle. I wonder if someone with pull was trying to buy her property cheap.
WOD bump.
Latest collateral damage in the illegal war on drugs.
The CNN article on this story said the cops "knocked and announced" before they "forced open the door." I would bet that the announcement happened at the moment the battering ram took out the front door. The poor woman may have gotten spooked if she saw the plain clothes cops lurking in the dark, before crashing in.
I really don't believe the woman was an innocent. More to this story than is written.
another "botched" no-knock raid, wonderful.
as someone remarked on another thread, if she had a dog they could've shot, it would be the icing on the cake.