Posted on 11/18/2012 8:37:52 PM PST by Altariel
A college student was injured during an FBI raid Thursday morning in District Heights, Md.
Agents were executing a search warrant at a home in the 6700 block of Kipling Parkway when the SWAT team "felt threatened" by a woman in the home, authorities said.
Homeowner Emory Hughley, a former military service member, was present at the incident. He told News4's Jackie Bensen that one agent fired at his 18-year-old daughter, Myasia, at least seven times with a semi-automatic weapon.
Hughley said his son and two of Myasia's friends were also in the house when a SWAT team of about 15 agents, fully clad in riot gear, forcibly entered the split-level home around 6 a.m.
As Hughley was emerging from his lower-level bedroom, he heard agents yelling, "She's got a gun, she's got a gun," he told Bensen.
Hughley said his daughter was wearing only a sleep shirt when the agent fired, barely missing her head. One shot broke into fragments as it hit the brick wall, striking her in the neck.
Myasia Hughley was transported to Prince George’s Hospital Center, where she interviewed by authorities. Her injury is non-life-threatening, authorities said.
Hughley said he didn't know what the search warrant was for, but that the family didn't keep guns in their home.
The FBI's Washington Field Office would not specify what the warrant was for, and haven't provided any further information. But Hughley feels that the amount of force which agents opened home was excessive and dangerous, he told Bensen. The brick wall has multiple bullet holes.
Neighbors told Bensen they never noticed any untoward behavior in or around the family's home.
A neighbor told News4's Tony Tull she heard loud "bang" around 6:30 a.m.
Stay with News4 and NBCWashington.com as this story develops.
Maybe she was in a dog suit.
Well, yeah, I guess that sums up your position succinctly. :)
How is little Halla doing?
You mean little Hellspawn?
She’s in her ‘psychotic, unsocialized, utterly no bite-inhibition” phase.
My hands look like “Weasels ripped my flesh”.
She’s still not as physically co-ordinated or balanced as she should be at this age but we’re hoping her brain will eventually compensate for the injury.
Other than that, we’re focusing on trying to make up for the fact that she did not have litter mates with which to learn normal puppy social skills.
On the upside, if they had Schutzhund classes for 8 week old puppies, she’d excel at bite work.
She’s ~really~ growing, too.
She was 4 pounds and now she’s about 12.
Odds are we’re going to be saying ‘that girl ain’t right’ for years to come but somehow, she’s kind of the dog I deserve, isn’t she?
[who else would love and understand her as well as I could?]
;D
She goes for her next cold laser treatment this week.
I can’t wait to see how her therapist deals with ‘zapping’ the head of a whirling dervish full of needle teeth while we’re busy shielding her eyes from the laser.
Should be tons of fun.
[not]
LOL
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