Story out of Sycamore, Illinois:
A family was frightened by police and rousted out of their beds last week as officers pursuing a murder suspect mistakenly descended on a home in Sycamore, surrounding the house with guns and dogs.
In the dark of night early Friday, just hours after a 25-year-old DeKalb man had been shot to death, State Police, DeKalb County sheriff's deputies and Sycamore police officers surrounded the home of Eric Nabors — where he lives with his wife and three children.
The children told ABC 7 Chicago's Chuck Goudie the police shone their flashlights through their bedroom windows, flashing them on and off. The children, a girl and boy ages 13 and 10, emerged from the house with their hands in the air as police dogs barked.
So did their dad.
"I stepped out and I took not even three steps out the door, and I see a whole bunch of people running saying, 'He's got a gun,'" Eric Nabors told ABC. "I didn't have nothing on me, nothing in my hand, I don't own a gun. After they searched me, then they told me what they were looking for. 'We're looking for a black male suspect with dreads for a possible homicide in DeKalb.'
"They didn't believe me until they finally ran my name."
The family is considering whether to file a lawsuit. Cont.
Story from - Elgin Patch
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