A 19-year-old Alabama woman was shot last Thursday when local police, officers from Homeland Security and the U.S. Marshals Office entered the property. They were looking for the 41-year-old uncle of the teenager’s fiance.
Police detained two men outside the house, who told them that there was a woman inside. According to Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran, “this lady had armed herself with a shotgun and the entry team was giving her orders to drop the gun, put the gun down, drop the gun several times over a period of a few seconds it seems like.”
He added that the 19-year-old did not drop the gun and pointed it at one of the officers. Two or three agents then opened fire, striking her up to four times. Cochran said there “is video recordings” of authorities asking her to drop her weapon.
She was hospitalised and successfully underwent surgery. Her fiance said that she is expected to survive.
The man the authorities were looking for had already been arrested the day before the incident. Officials called the situation a “miscommunication.” The victim’s fiance argued that “it’s just so unfortunate because none of this needed to happen, it had nothing to do with us. We’re just victims of an unfortunate situation.”
