Wrong House Raid Highlights Continuing Danger to Public from Police Responders
They have the team. They have the equipment and gear.
Now all they need is the right address.
“Farmington police shoot and kill man after responding to wrong home,” Albuquerque’s NBC affiliate KOB4 Eyewitness News reported Friday on an incident from the previous Wednesday.
Police were responding to a domestic violence call and “mistakenly approached the wrong house.”
Per the New Mexico State Police, which is investigating the shooting, the police knocked on the door and announced themselves. “ When no one answered, officers asked dispatch to call the reporting party back and have them come to the front door.”
Killed was homeowner Robert Dotson, 52, who answered his door with a gun in hand. Since it was the wrong house, he’s not the one who got the call. He was presumptively trying to figure out what was going on and who was out there.