Police Say Unarmed Woman in Ohio Was Shot in Head "Accidentally" During Botched Raid
Say the cop didn't know he fired his weapon
Police are now saying the shot that killed an unarmed Ohio woman during a botched drug raid was purely accidental–and the officer who fired the shot didn't even know that his gun had gone off.
Last week, a drug task force with the Ross County sheriff's department executed a search warrant on a trailer in Chillicothe, Ohio. They expected to find a large cache of weapons and drugs.
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..."the officer who fired the shot didn't even know that his gun had gone off."...
A silent, no recoil weapon?
Say it with me now, "Because... Fuck you, that's why!"
According to the report, the gun must have gone off exactly at the moment they detonated a flash bomb, and was the ONLY shot fired.
In other news, a rainbow-colored unicorn tipped off the cops to the drug cache.