Police fire 39 shots and kills 92 year old woman

Kathryn Johnston, 92
J.R. Smith, leftGregg Junnier, center

no knock wrong house..but

Both men also agreed to help investigators with their ongoing probe into the activities of Atlanta police narcotics officers.

When grown men come together to lie:

The charges followed the drug raid on the home of Johnston, 92. An informant had described buying drugs from a dealer there, police said. When the officers burst in without warning, Johnston fired at them, and they fired back, killing her.

Fulton County prosecutor Peter Johnson disclosed Thursday that the officers involved in Johnston's death fired 39 shots, striking her five or six times, including a fatal blow to the chest.

He said Johnston fired only once, through her door, and didn't hit any of the officers. That means the officers who were wounded were hit by their own colleagues, he said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Yonette Sam-Buchanan revealed Thursday that although the officers found no drugs in Johnston's home, Smith planted three bags of marijuana in the home as part of the cover story the officers concocted later.

Forgiveness is in the discretion of judges as proven in the following excerpt from the article as well as the fact that there was no drug testing of the police officer until after Johnston death:

Junnier and Smith had been charged in an indictment unsealed earlier Thursday with felony murder, violation of oath by a public officer, criminal solicitation, burglary, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and making false statements. The murder charge was reduced to manslaughter as part of their pleas, and prosecutors agreed not to pursue the burglary and assault charges.

Junnier and Smith could have faced up to life in prison had they been convicted of murder.

The deadly drug raid had been set up after narcotics officers said an informant had claimed there was cocaine in the home.

When the plainclothes officers burst in without notice, police said Johnston fired at them and they fired back.

The case raised serious questions about no-knock warrants and whether the officers followed proper procedures.

Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington asked the FBI to lead a multi-agency probe into the shootout. He also announced policy changes to require the department to drug-test its nearly 1,800 officers and mandate that top supervisors sign off on narcotics operations and no-knock warrants.