[IMHO]

Well, I guess if she was driving at fourteen, she deserved it, Huh?

/sarcasm

[Pay now bill Clinton]

[Redcloak]

Hmmm... Mistaken identity. Let's see if this story sticks to the wall. (Will it be "We thought that she was an Iraqi" next week?"

[IMHO]

Here's another version


Suspect
LAST UPDATE: 2/11/2003 12:23:57 AM
Posted By: Maritza Nunez

Watch this story...

It started as a stake-out and ended in a shootout.

A 14-year-old girl shot during an attempted drug bust
was listed in critical condition Monday night. Ashley
Villarreal was shot late Sunday by San Antonio drug
agents who were looking for Ashley's father.

"They should have known she was only a little girl,"
said Adriana Villarreal, Ashley's sister. "She was only
14, she was a baby."

Ashley Villarreal and another man were driving away
from her grandmother's house when she was shot in
the head.

Agents thought the man in the car with her was their
suspect trying to get away.

In all, the DEA says agents fired three shots into
Villarreal's car. One bullet hit her in the head. The other
two ended up across the street into a home, barely
missing a bedroom window.

Not a single shot came within miles of the real suspect,
Villarreal's father. In fact, he wasn't even at his home
Sunday night.

Drug agents said the suspect is a significant drug
trafficker in the San Antonio area that deals cocaine
and meth-amphetamines. News 4 WOAI found
nothing on the man's record. "Our greatest concern
when we're putting together these operational plans is
the safety of the public and the safety of our agents that
are out there dealing with these people," said Robert
Paiz with the DEA.

But neighbors say they're not sure who scares them
more, drug dealers or the officers who are supposed to
go after them. "I was just afraid that some of the shots
might come through my window," said one neighbor
who lives near Sunday night's shooting. "It was just too
scary."

The suspect was still free Monday night, but agents
said they got a call from the suspect's lawyer saying he
may turn himself in sometime Tuesday.

[babaloo999]

Hasn't this story already made the rounds of FR this week?
I thought the girl died a couple of days ago.
Anyway, don't be surprised or upset if this thread gets pulled.

[blackdog]

If they would just make feds comply with a 9:00 curfew, make them leave their sunglasses at home, and take away their cars, all the dogs, grandmoms, eagle scouts, chilrun, and marijuana smoking warlords would sleep safer.

"High fives all around, dead dog, lungshot grandpa, HOOHAH!!!"(the leo death cheer)

[HetLoo]

another victim of gun violence...

[babaloo999]

Actually, those threads may have been dumped or moved to the dungeon.
The jack booted thugs were going at it pretty good with the pervert libertarian
cop haters. Or something along those lines.

[BossLady]

The DEA strikes again!

[lodwick]

Damm this WOD bullshit!

Our government = our enemy.

[muir_redwoods]

Just another bit of unavoidable collateral damage in the glorious war on some drugs. Her parents can rest easy knowing that her injury may have helped raise the cost of drug abuse by some significant fraction of a penny per dose. Maybe

[Gary Seven]

This girl was shot in the BACK OF HER HEAD...

[cavtrooper21]

JBT ping

[GOPyouth]

slammed into their vehicle, then shifted into reverse and rammed the DEA vehicle behind her.

If she used a car to slam the police vehicle, then used the car to slam the vehicle again, this is using a deadly weapon. The cops are justified in firing to stop this girl from killing police officers and other innocent bystanders.

[cynwoody]

100 druggies dying of overdoses because the DEA failed to arrest their pushers would be a far lesser tragedy!

[freepatriot32]

heres another version that may clear up some of the questions

SAN ANTONIO -- A teenage girl, shot and killed by federal drug agents, was a victim of excessive force from law officers who were investigating her father, relatives and friends say.

Ashley Villarreal, 14, died on Tuesday evening after family members requested that she be taken off life support at Wilford Hall Medical Center.

A friend challenged Drug Enforcement Administration officials' account of how agents on Sunday had shot the daughter of Joey Angel Villarreal, a three-time convicted drug offender who turned himself in and was charged with cocaine trafficking a day after the shooting.

Ashley Villarreal had been hospitalized in critical condition since being shot once in the back of the head.

One of the agents at a drug stakeout in plain clothes and unmarked vehicles were watching a house on the city's west side where they believed a suspect was hiding when they saw a man get into the passenger side of a car, San Antonio police Sgt. Gabe Trevino said.

"A girl got into the driver's side of the vehicle, and when they started leaving without the headlights on, and at a high rate of speed, the agents felt certain that this was their suspect and he was trying to escape," Trevino said after the shooting.

When agents boxed the car in and attempted to arrest the man, they said the girl who was driving the car continued toward them and slammed into their vehicle, then shifted into reverse and rammed the DEA vehicle behind her. Agents fired at least four times, and the girl was struck in the head.

Trevino said the man was not the drug suspect agents were seeking, but he was booked into jail on a charge of public intoxication.

Daniel Robles, a family friend and housemate who was with the teenager during the stakeout, said the unmarked vehicles that emerged moments after the girl pulled out of the driveway appeared to be pursuing her.

"It makes me really angry," Robles told the San Antonio Express-News earlier Tuesday. "This girl's dying and there are these reports that she threatened them."

Investigators from the DEA arrived Tuesday afternoon to begin reviewing the death. San Antonio police officers continued their investigation, questioning the shooting victim's grandmother.

Robles said the agents opened fire immediately after the crash and didn't identify themselves until afterward.

"The first shot was fired and Ashley didn't say a word," he said. "She didn't scream or anything and I knew she was hit with the first shot."

Robles said the girl had not tried to back up unless, somehow in the collision, her automatic transmission was knocked into reverse. He said there was no way for the car to have endangered the agents.

"How could they feel threatened when we were jammed in between (their vehicles) like a sandwich?" he said.

Law officers declined to respond to Robles' version or to discuss details of the case Tuesday, citing the pending investigation.

Robles said that after the gunfire, the agents pulled him out through the passenger side and handcuffed him. Then they reached in and lay Ashley on the grassy curb.

"They knew. I could see it. They had made a big mistake," Robles said.

and it appears in this article that they were not wearing their id vests it say sthey were in plainclothes and unmarked cars