When Raiding Wrong Apartment, U.S. Marshals Point Guns At FL Mother, Baby: Report

BRADENTON, FL — U.S. Marshals raiding the wrong apartment in Bradenton Friday morning terrified a new mother when they pointed guns at her and her newborn.

Kada Staples told Fox 13 that she was napping with her 3-month-old daughter when her Ring doorbell camera app began alerting her that there was movement at her front door.

When the 22-year-old new mother looked at the video alerts, she saw two men in bulletproof vests aiming guns at her door. They announced themselves as U.S. Marshals.

One of the men yelled, “Tell him to come out with his hands up. We know he’s in there. The place is surrounded.”

"I was scared, I didn't really know what to do. I didn't want to open the door, but I was more scared that if I didn't open the door, they were going to come in," Staples told Fox 13.

She put her dog in its cage and stepped out of the apartment.

"They pushed me out of the way and they’re holding me and my baby at gunpoint. And I’m freaking out because there’s seven or eight of them with guns and they’re screaming at me that they know he’s in there," she told ABC Action News.

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After a couple of minutes, the Marshals realized they were at the wrong apartment and left.

The U.S. Marshals were assisting Bradenton police in their arrest of Shamar Johnson, a suspect in a Sept. 11 murder, reports said. He was arrested in a different apartment at The Preserve on 51st in Bradenton.

Johnson had been on the run since the Sept. 11 shooting that killed a 26-year-old man in Bradenton. He was charged with second-degree murder.

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