Azaria Hines, the woman who was at home when Metro Police mistakenly raided the wrong apartment, says she hasn’t had much sleep since the incident.
Now, Azaria says she feels unsafe in her own home.
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Azaria Hines had finished her late shift at the local Mapco, curling up on her downstairs couch asleep when the banging outside began.
Hines told News4 she had just finished a late shift at her job and was on the couch asleep and unclothed when she heard a loud banging on her door.
Before she knew it, Hines said police came bursting through the door with a battering ram, smashing the door frame and pointing guns at her.
Hines’ 15-year-old cousin and her 3-year-old nephew were inside the apartment at the time.
“We are very much traumatized. Every time I think about it, I just want to cry,” Hines told News4. “I literally thought it was a dream. These kind of things need to stop. It just needs to stop.”
The botched raid happened at Edgehill Apartments, an affordable-housing property of the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency. Police said information from an outdated database led to the incident.
