Alisa Carr and Avery Marshall have filed a lawsuit after a SWAT team mistakenly raided their home, alleging violation of their rights. The deputies were searching for a auto thief but targeted the wrong house. The couple claims law enforcement misled a judge into obtaining the warrant. During the chaotic raid, their children were threatened at gunpoint. They allege that the deputies caused property damage and acted irresponsibly, prompting them to take legal action against the involved counties and sheriffs.
"The worst part of this whole nightmare was laying on the ground, not being able to do anything, while cops have an AR pointed in my son's face. All I could do was yell, 'He's 9 years old,'" Marshall said in a statement from Institute for Justice.
Carr and Marshall are suing the counties and sheriffs they say are responsible for the mistake, accusing officials of violating their constitutional rights against unreasonable search and seizure in the April 10 raid last year.
The officers then used the ill-gotten search warrant to break into and damage Carr and Marshall's home in Willard, North Carolina, the complaint states.
The team of local sheriff's deputies was looking for a man they suspected of stealing from unlocked cars, the lawsuit states, but instead, they burst into a house the suspect had never been to.
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