Yet more blood on the hands of Drug Warriors:

Three Atlanta narcotics officers were wounded in a Tuesday evening shootout with a 92-year-old woman in northwest Atlanta. She was shot and killed. This was supposed to be the routine serving of a search warrant, but things went very wrong, very fast.

Once the gunfire ended, three APD narcotics officers had been shot: one with a graze-wound to the face, and another hit dead-on, center of mass in the bulletproof vest. They were all transported to Grady Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

A 92-year-old woman — Kathryn Johnston — lived in the home where the officers tried to execute the warrant. She was killed in the gun battle.

“The female victim shot and wounded all three of them (the officers),” said deputy police chief Allen Dreher. “The investigation is going to be ongoing — I’d say it would be all wrapped up in a period of time, but as we have it, she opened fire on the officers. The officers returned fire, struck and killed her.”

What they didn’t mention on the website that they DID mention on the local TV broadcast is that they busted down the womans door, and she had had bars on the windows. Sounds like she feared someone breaking in to me. Under those circumstances, no shit she fired first! She’s 92, living by herself, in a bad neighborhood, and someone smashes their way into her home, if I were her I’d start firing too. What’s she supposed to do, call out questions to whoever was there in the darkness, asking them to sit down in the living room and wait for her? “Would you young men like a cup of tea?”

For all she knew it was some gang punks willing to kill for valueables. Though, to be honest, what’s the difference? This was the biggest gang we know rearing its ugly head again, they were looking for something valueable (drugs), and they obviously were willing to kill otherwise this woman wouldn’t be dead.

Whether they had the wrong house, or someone used to live there that fled long before the cops caught up, the atrocity is obvious. End the Drug War, now.

***edit @ 1:11pm EST 112206***  Radley’s got more info.