Eighteen-year-old Kaleigh Berry felt she was the victim of a home invasion Tuesday afternoon when armed men pulled up in front of her Earline Avenue residence and came in yelling for everyone in the house to show themselves, she said.

Everyone did, including Berry’s 66-year-old grandmother, 8-month-old son and two female friends, ages 18 and 28.

Berry and her grandmother, Jackie McAuliffe, said the men were wearing what appeared to be Kevlar vests but didn’t identify themselves until McAuliffe demanded they do so.
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That’s when one said he was a Columbus probation officer. McAuliffe said she noticed another officer had insignia on his shirt showing he worked for the Muscogee County sheriff.

Then it became clear that the five or six people who came swarming out of a dark SUV about 3 or 3:30 p.m. and surrounded Berry’s house before two pushed their way inside were law enforcement officers.

The women were terrified, as was Berry’s baby, Cohen.

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