Local News
Wrong-house shooting: Not the first time a 911 call puts homeowner in peril
More than a third of all Georgians fatally shot by law enforcement since 2010 were killed at home, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Channel 2 Action News investigation has found.
On Monday, three DeKalb police officers responded to a report of a burglary in progress, and entered the wrong home. In a bizarre turn of events, officers shot an unarmed homeowner, killed his dog and wounded a fellow officer, according to authorities.
Of the Georgians fatally shot by police since 2010, more than a third were killed at home, according to an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News.
• James Felio, a father of their three young boys and a man with no criminal record, had physically abused his wife in December 2010. But when she called officers to come to the family’s Lawrenceville home he was lying asleep in the couple’s bed, naked and unarmed. Ten minutes after police arrived, he had been shot dead. [Read more]
• Kevin Davis called police for help in December 2014 after his girlfriend had been cut by his roommate. When a DeKalb police officer arrived at the apartment, he shot Davis’s dog in the doorway and then shot Davis. [Read more]
• Anthony Hill, a mentally disturbed Air Force veteran, was completely naked and unarmed when was shot by DeKalb police in March 2015 at his apartment complex after police said he made a threatening move toward the officer. [Read more]
• Holli Gooch was at her home in December 2010, when six officers illegally rushed into the home with guns drawn and no warrant, according to a lawsuit later filed by her family. Gooch, who had a history of mental illness, panicked and ran into her kitchen, where officers said she grabbed a hammer and wielded it as a weapon, the lawsuit said. They shot her four times and the mother of two died on her kitchen floor. [Read more]
• Christopher Roupe, a Jr. ROTC student, was shot when he opened the front door of his home because the police officer, there to serve his father with a warrant, thought Roupe had a gun, according to GBI records. He was holding the controller to his video game, according to his family. [Read more]
To read other stories on police shootings, visit our Over the Line series.
