Police Respond to Wrong Home and Shoot Homeowner in Stockbridge, Georgia
Authorities: Police respond to wrong house, shoot homeowner
Authorities said William Powell, 63, was shot by Henry County police officers who went to the wrong house when responding to a 911 call on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 in Stockbridge, Ga.
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June 8, 2016
CBS - A Georgia police officer responded to the wrong house and shot the homeowner, authorities said Wednesday.
June 8, 2016
CBS - A Georgia police officer responded to the wrong house and shot the homeowner, authorities said Wednesday.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Henry County police asked the agency to investigate the shooting early Wednesday morning at home in Stockbridge, southeast of Atlanta.
CBS affiliate WGCL reported someone called 911 shortly before midnight Tuesday to report hearing a woman yelling for help and gunshots. The GBI said a preliminary review of the 911 call indicates the three officers who responded went to the wrong home.
Powell was in critical condition at Atlanta Medical Center, WGCL reported.
Police did eventually find the correct house, according to the GBI.
"There was an argument there however they indicated that there was no screaming for help or shots fired," Scott Dutton of the GBI told WGCLThe officer who shot Powell was placed on administrative leave.
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eyelostmyname 1 hour ago
ReplyDeleteHow much do you want to bet that the cops are lying about the circumstances of the shooting? They always make up lies about someone or another refusing to obey their orders. This time, it just happened not to be a black person. I guess that means some higher authority is going to do something about it, now.
Vietnam v 1 hour ago
When You are accosted in Your Home By The Law, which has No business in your front door, It takes 5 to 15 seconds for you to comprehend Them Cops Yelling DROP YOUR GUN, and then try to understand what they want and try to understand WHY.
The cops Just Yell drop the gun 2 or three times in 3 seconds.THEN THEY SHOT...WHY ???
They see an opportunity to Put a KNOTCH ON THEIR GUN..and after at the station Pay out the Killing..
_Karl_Hungus_ 1 hour ago
More likely scenario: the police show up at the wrong house; the homeowner, fearing his home is about to be broken into, arms himself and goes to investigate. The cops, amped up on a dangerous mix of adrenaline and cowardice, and seeing a man with a gun and not wearing the proper state-issued costume, open fire. Once they realize their mistake, they quickly concoct a cover story about how the guy failed to "obey commands" to drop his gun and how, "fearing for their lives," they opened fire.
citizen187187 1 hour ago
Australian, UK, Canadian Police do not pack guns on a regular basis - so they are very hesitant to shoot people, unless really really provoked, even at the risk of their own lives.
US Police on the other HAND are taught to Kill or be Killed, so they are TRAINED to think that we the citizens are the ENEMY on first encounter. This is of course BECAUSE we are a more violent society with morE GUNS.
adamdrussell 1 hour ago
When you tell someone to drop the weapon you have to give them enough time to comply before you start shooting. Otherwise why even give the order?
adamdrussell 1 hour ago
Wow cops shoot wrong guy.
No body cam.
Article gets the cops side but not the homeowner's side.
Readers assume cops did no wrong because the cops said they did no wrong.
citizen187187 1 hour ago
ReplyDeleteI am amazed at some of the comments. You clearly do not understand the constitution. The Police have no rights in your home and telling you to put a gun down is not something you need to comply. Most of you are trying to justify the Police actions when in fact your dead wrong. As a homeowner you do not need to obey the police in your own home on your own property. In fact to be honest this can be argued as a Police home invasion and therefore the home owner has every right on the planet to protect his property even from the police. Read and try to understand the constitution morons.
Armedgoodguy 1 hour ago
@citizen187187 You are correct, people do not have to obey an unlawful order and the law gives them no right to order people who have not committed a crime to do anything. Most people however have been conditioned to believe whenever a police officer tells you to do something, by law you must comply. In many cases it may be a wise decision to comply but only because law enforcement officers do not always understand or obey the constitution and sheeple have excepted their unconstitutional actions as being just and lawful.
adamdrussell 1 hour ago
@rickrow1 How do you know that the cops side of the story is 100% truth? No body cams, and no one bothered to ask the homeowner if that is what really happened.
computerflyer 1 hour ago
How would anyone know they were real cops? Since nothing happened at that residence that would be a reasonable worry. Drop your gun and get invaded. Oh wait, guns always make one safer, don't they?
adamdrussell 1 hour ago
@truthnotopinion @NCDEN How long between the order to drop the weapon and the time he was shot? Could be trigger happy cop. Too bad no body cam to document it.
citizen187187 1 hour ago
Your on your property you have every right to defend your PROPERTY. Your more concerned with protecting the POLICE than realizing that they are INFRINGING on your rights as a homeowner.
Americaisajoke 1 hour ago
so many idiots in America so many ! No not the home owner, the pigs and some of the commenters !
Many all over this planet need to get a life and an intelligence, listen to the music and the LYRICS of Morrissey folks !
cops are cops (very sad indeed!) some are good, most are bad !
ONE of the greater problem of these constables on patrol breaking the law, and hurting, abusing, degrading, humiliating, this n that, PLUS killing so many innocent citizens on this land, is "the blue code of silence" in their ranks .... figure it out!
doutless 1 hour ago
Yeah, ten past midnight, you wake up to a group of shadowy figures in you home pointing flashlights in your face and yelling at you to drop your gun and then one fires. I give the guy credit for not shooting first.
computerflyer 1 hour ago
ReplyDeleteWhen was the last time you read a factual, unbiased, non-partisan news report about anything that had all or even most of the important details?
adamdrussell 1 hour ago
A reasonable amount of time is what they are trained to give. Who knows if they followed procedure though. If you shoot someone without giving them time to comply you are wrong!
RichardHarrow 2 hours ago
We don't have the facts, yet the version you lay out is implausible. A law abiding homeowner given time to recognize that he was facing the police would not have appeared threatening to these officers. It makes much more sense that these officers had their guns drawn when he opened the door and fired as soon as they saw his weapon.
We'll only know the truth of the story if he survives to tell us. History has shown us that police always have the same story. "The guy they shot was a threat".
klM4990 3 hours ago
very poor dispatching, the home owner could not have been prosecuted if he had injured an officer. if they identified themselves,and blue lights flashing, it should have been obvious. but if they just broke down his door he would have been justified to shoot. all sorts of stuff wrong here.
catmomtx 3 hours ago
A homeowner who maybe didn't hear them and police who shot way to soon.
DWrightOneAllAlong 3 hours ago
What do you expect from cops that are worse than Deputy Barney Fife? At least Fife had only one bullet and he put it in his shirt pocket. I'm surprised that they don't charge the homeowner with assault on a police officer. The trouble is that the homeowner is hard of hearing and didn't have his hearing aid and never heard the cops demands. Besides he was defending his home from what he thought was a bunch of drunks.
NoPartyAffilation 4 hours ago
Cops are very corrupt and often are gung-ho. If people actually knew what they did behind closed doors, they would never trust them ever.
I suspect people know they are corrupt they are just in denial because if they face the fact that America is corrupt to the core, then that means they too are not really ever safe.
RichardHarrow 5 hours ago
.....thinking back to the legally armed drummer in Florida, late at night with a broken down car.....the official story was that the plainclothes officer exited his vehicle and was startled by an armed man, which caused his gun to discharge, never explaining why the officer had his gun drawn......the eventual story had the dead guy 80 feet away where he had run after being shot several times.....whatever happened in that case?....
......point being, you may have every right to own a gun and have it in your hand but the police will shoot you if you do....
imho-ca 5 hours ago
@HudsonHawke I agree. I do not believe the cops were acting as thugs. The occupant was probably disoriented (just woke up), 63 years old and hearing armed men entering his house. The victim has every right to protect his home with a gun. The victim probably did not comply fast enough for the cops. Unfortunate incident but the most egregious is the wrong address mistake.
LOuIvIlLE. 5 hours ago
All we have if the policeman story that he refused to comply, could easily be they shot him just as soon as he opened the door.
RichardHarrow 4 hours ago
.....like the wrong house the Atlanta PD went in and shot the homeowner and his dog.....whatever happened in that case?.....
.......or the wrong house drug raid in the middle of the night where a flash bang was thrown into a baby crib.....whatever happened in that case?.....oh yeah, police exonerated and the child faces reconstructive surgery every few years as his head and face grow....a third of it blown and burned away.....