Posted on 06/10/2016 12:02:58 PM PDT by Trump20162020
A Georgia homeowner shot in the neck after police went to the wrong house has died, a lawyer for the family said Friday.
William Powell, 63, died Thursday afternoon at Atlanta Medical Center, attorney Keith Martin said.
A preliminary review of the 911 call indicates the three officers who responded had gone to the wrong home and showed up at Powell's house, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.
Powell was armed with a gun and was shot in the neck by one of the officers, authorities said. He had grabbed the gun for protection, not knowing who might be outside in the dark of night, Martin said. A nearby home had been burglarized just two weeks before the shooting, he added.
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Athens, TENNESSEE, not Georgia...
Why should yelling “POLICE!” shift the burden from the cops to the homeowner? Have there been some studies that I missed showing that home invaders and other crooks are unable to yell that?
Something to do with modular housing?
Wow, they’re stamping then out with dies these days? What will they think of next?
I think I would have gone with “Georgia man dies after wrong-address police raid”
Erps, meant to say “Georgia homeowner dies...”
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