Albuquerque, New Mexico: Innocent Family’s Home Burned, 15yo Boy Dead After SWAT Set Their Home on Fire with Flash Bangs

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Innocent Family’s Home Burned, 15yo Boy Dead After SWAT Set Their Home on Fire with Flash Bangs

11 July 2012

An innocent family is homeless and a 15-year-old boy is dead after a SWAT team engaged in a standoff to arrest a suspect for a parole violation. Police are now conducting damage control to avoid taking the blame. Last week, police said they were pursuing a suspect, Qiaunt Kelley, for a federal felony warrant for robbery. They later changed their story to say that Kelley was wanted for violation of parole. While on the run, Kelley ran into the home of an innocent family and barricaded himself inside the home, according to police. A standoff ensued for hours as police ...

Innocent Family's Home Burned, 15yo Boy Dead After SWAT Set Their Home on Fire with Flash Bangs

An innocent family is homeless and a 15-year-old boy is dead after a SWAT team engaged in a standoff to arrest a suspect for a parole violation.

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Brett Rosenau Is the Latest Child Killed in a Botched SWAT Raid

14 July 2022

Early in the morning on July 7, after a SWAT team bombarded a home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with chemical irritants and a flashbang device, detectives went inside and found the corpse of a teenage boy. Brett Rosenau, 15, was not suspected of any crime. The police’s target, a 27-year-old man who was wanted for a parole violation, had already emerged from the house to be arrested. But a fire had erupted inside, likely from the flashbangs. The man with the alleged parole violation was burned, and Rosenau died from smoke inhalation. While an investigation is underway, the police chief ...

Brett Rosenau is the latest child killed in a botched SWAT raid

The death of the 15-year-old has sparked protests in New Mexico.

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Unnecessary SWAT Raid Ended in the Death of an Albuquerque Teen
This was an attempted arrest of a man wanted for questioning and parole violations, not a hostage situation.

14 July 2022

Law enforcement in New Mexico is examining how a teenage boy wound up dead from smoke inhalation following an Albuquerque SWAT raid to catch a man wanted for parole violations and questioning. On July 7, police converged on a home in southeast Albuquerque to arrest 27-year-old Qiaunt Kelley on a warrant for parole violations. The home was not Kelley's. When police arrived at the home, they found him outside with Brett Rosenau, 15. Kelley, rather than surrendering to police, fled into the home and barricaded himself in. Rosenau followed him in, according to the Albuquerque Police Department's public report. In ...

Unnecessary SWAT Raid Ended in the Death of an Albuquerque Teen

This was an attempted arrest of a man wanted for questioning and parole violations, not a hostage situation.

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