Officers kill homeowner after responding to wrong address

[MineralMan]

5. Good question.

I don't just go and open the door if someone is banging on it. I look to see who's out there first. If it's cops, I'm not going to be holding a gun in my hand. That's just stupid.

The police shouldn't go to the wrong house. But, they do, more often than people realize. I've had it happen twice to me. I have house numbers on my front wall, and they're lit at night. But, I've had cops come to my door after being at the correct house number, but on the wrong street one time, and after swapping the last two numbers on their warrant and ending up at my house.

It wasn't easy to convince them that they had made a mistake, either. They were dead sure they were at the correct address. Once I got them to understand the mistake, they didn't even apologize. They just left.

But, I did all that through the screen door, after seeing that it was cops. No gun in my hand.