Alabama Police Shoot Woman After Entering Her Home While Trying To Arrest Man Who Was Already In Jail
By Ashe Schow
Police officers in Mobile County, Alabama entered a home and shot a woman while trying to arrest a man who was already in jail. Authorities are now blaming the woman because she held up a shotgun at them after they entered her home erroneously.
Police officers were dispatched to the home to arrest 41-year-old Nicholas McLeod, who used to live in the house that was stormed. McLeod had several outstanding warrants for his arrest. But McLeod no longer lived in the home. Instead, his nephew, Christopher, lived in the house along with his fiancé, Ann Rylee, 19.
Christopher told news outlets that he was outside the house when multiple police officers pulled up, decked out in body armor and carrying rifles. Christopher said the officers told him to put his hands up.
“They were looking for someone who used to live at that house years ago. He was my uncle,” McLeod said, according to The Associated Press.
McLeod told news outlets that he informed the police that his fiancée, Rylee, was inside the home and sleeping on a recliner with quick access to a shotgun for protection. McLeod said two federal marshals then yelled “gun” and shots were fired.
“They had us face down in the dirt outside the whole time this was going on,” McLeod said.
Rylee was shot multiple times and has had surgery for her wounds.
“I just hope she’s OK. That’s my No. 1,” McLeod said, according to the AP. “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.”
WALA reported that Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran laid blame for the incident on Rylee.