Price said police found no evidence that a stray bullet from the shootout made its way to a baseball field that runs 150 to 200 feet behind Clifton Street — separated by a creek and dense brush.
Rita Roby, a coach of a girls softball team playing at the field, said Tuesday that there were about 100 people at the field at the time of the shooting, including ball players, spectators and coaches.
Roby said that she was huddling with her team at the edge of the field when they heard about five bullets.
One of her players, she said, felt something whiz past her shirt. Roby said she can’t believe police engaged in a shootout so close to a ball field where children were playing ball.
“It really makes me angry,” she said. “It’s really sloppy.”
Price said a bullet did go through the back of Cooper’s home, but police have not recovered it.
“We checked the field with metal detectors, and interviewed people there,” he said. “We found no evidence that a bullet went into the ball field,” or that it had whizzed past the girl’s shirt.
Price noted that the field is not visible from Cooper’s home because of the dense brush.
The softball players were about half a block away, but separated by "a creek and dense brush," which, the last I heard, doesn't offer much ballistic cover. (One of the officers accidentally fired through Cooper's front door. The bullet lodged in the house of a woman across the street.)
It's looking doubtful that Mr. Cooper guy was selling prescription drugs. And even if he was, just what was the purpose of having a SWAT raid on his house?
Onward and upward,
airforce
