Story out of Collegedale, Tennessee
Two Collegedale, Tenn., police officers mistook a Guatemalan woman hired to clean Ooltewah Middle School for a burglar and used a Taser to stop her when she ran from them earlier this month, police records show.
Sgt. Jamie Heath and Officer Brian Desmond first responded to the school on Ooltewah-Ringgold Road around 8:20 p.m. after Desmond noticed an open door at the facility, Heath wrote in the report. The men decided to check the school for intruders and began to clear the building with their guns drawn, he wrote.
As they were checking a room that had two entrances, a woman in a blue T-shirt with the letters "ABM" on the front walked into the room at the entrance opposite the officers. She was not carrying anything.
The officers kept their weapons drawn but not pointed at the woman, Heath wrote. The men asked the woman to identify herself, but she did not understand English and answered every question with "No," according to the report.
As Desmond tried to speak with the woman, she walked to the door where Heath was standing. He motioned for her to stop and asked for her "identificacion" and "licencia," according to the report. She said "no" and continued to slowly walk through the room.
She then rounded a corner and began to walk quickly away down a hallway, Heath wrote. He yelled "alto" — the Spanish word for stop — and the woman began to sprint away. The two men chased after her, running through the school's cafeteria, down a flight of stairs, out the building and into the parking lot. Heath warned the woman to stop or she would be shot with a stun gun, he said in his report.
The woman was charged with evading arrest and booked into jail under the name Juana Raymundo, 36. She was released on a $750 bond and is due in Collegedale Municipal Court on March 2. Cont.
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