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Deputies Raid Wrong Home, hold gun to mother with
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Deputies Raid Wrong Home, Find Family Inside
Authorities Looking For Two Shooting Suspects
SPRINGDALE, Ark. -- County deputies searching for two Springdale shooting suspects raided the wrong home Friday in what officials are describing as a misunderstanding.
Lily Crowley was at home with her four children and five grandchildren when Benton County deputies arrived searching for two men accused of shooting a Springdale man earlier that night.
The Crowley's family car matched the description of a car witnesses had seen at the shooting scene.
Deputies made the family wait outside as they searched the home with guns drawn and even handcuffed one of the daughter's boyfriends.
The family said the raid terrified the children, the youngest of whom is 4 years old.
"There's no reason for them to do it the way did it, especially when we told then there was babies inside," resident Tiffany Meehan said. "He held a gun to my mother and she was holding my 3-week-old baby -- that's not right."
Deputy Tom Brewster of the Benton County Sheriff's Office said deputies appeared to be acting on reliable information.
"We're sorry that it turned out that they were shaken up, but they should understand the circumstances," he said.
The family said officers did not tell them why they were there and what they were looking for until after deputies realized they had raided the wrong house.
Police are still searching for the two shooting suspects.
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Authorities Looking For Two Shooting Suspects
SPRINGDALE, Ark. -- County deputies searching for two Springdale shooting suspects raided the wrong home Friday in what officials are describing as a misunderstanding.
Lily Crowley was at home with her four children and five grandchildren when Benton County deputies arrived searching for two men accused of shooting a Springdale man earlier that night.
The Crowley's family car matched the description of a car witnesses had seen at the shooting scene.
Deputies made the family wait outside as they searched the home with guns drawn and even handcuffed one of the daughter's boyfriends.
The family said the raid terrified the children, the youngest of whom is 4 years old.
"There's no reason for them to do it the way did it, especially when we told then there was babies inside," resident Tiffany Meehan said. "He held a gun to my mother and she was holding my 3-week-old baby -- that's not right."
Deputy Tom Brewster of the Benton County Sheriff's Office said deputies appeared to be acting on reliable information.
"We're sorry that it turned out that they were shaken up, but they should understand the circumstances," he said.
The family said officers did not tell them why they were there and what they were looking for until after deputies realized they had raided the wrong house.
Police are still searching for the two shooting suspects.
Copyright 2002 by TheHometownChannel.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
http://www.thehometownchannel.com/news/1548327/detail.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878