Family held at gunpoint as SWAT team raids and destroys wrong NC home, suit says

After a North Carolina family’s former home was damaged by a storm, they had a new house built at the same address. Then, within a year, it was destroyed by a SWAT team searching for a suspect who wasn’t there, a new federal lawsuit says.

The SWAT team raided the wrong Pender County residence after midnight on April 10, 2024, when Alisa Carr, her fiancé Avery Marshall and their two children awoke to the shouts of deputies shattering glass, breaching the home’s front door and detonating flash-bang grenades, according to a complaint filed April 1.

Carr, Marshall, their son who was 9 at the time and the couple’s 16-year-old daughter were held at gunpoint by deputies armed with “military-grade” weapons from the Pender County and Lee County sheriff’s offices, the complaint says…

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