A Mississippi woman who was shot in the arm by a police officer while lying in bed filed a lawsuit against Mississippi Capitol Police on Tuesday.
Latasha Smith said that she was shot by an officer on Dec. 11 while she was lying in bed at her apartment with her daughter being only a few feet away.
The incident reportedly started because Capitol Police attempted to pull over a suspected stolen car in Jackson, Mississippi, but the suspects led officers on a chase that ended in Smith’s apartment complex, according to a lawusit obtained by Atlanta Black Star.
The three suspects abandoned the alleged stolen vehicle and ran in different directions. The two suspects on the driver’s side ran through the courtyard of the apartment complex, which is in the opposite direction of Smith’s apartment building. The third suspect ran on a grassy path behind apartment buildings in a direction toward Smith’s building.
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The officer allegedly got out of his police vehicle and attempted to chase the suspect that ran toward Smith’s building, but took a few steps and fired his weapon at the suspect. Smith said that two bullets hit the outside wall of her apartment and the third went through the window of her 13-year-old daughter’s room.
The bullet that went through the window, passed through her daughter’s room and ricocheted off a wall and hit Smith in the arm, according to a report obtained by NBC News. Her daughter was not hit and the Capitol Police initially reported that no one was harmed during the shooting.
After Smith was shot, she ran out of the apartment screaming she had been shot and spotted a Mississippi Capitol Police officer walking through the complex.
“I didn’t deserve to get shot. I’m human just like that man,” Smith said to NBC News, referring to the…
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