Shootout between police, suspect leaves 16 bullet holes in woman's apartment; says she's lucky she wasn't injured

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Neighbors say they were left in the line of fire after a man opened fired at Milwaukee police Thursday morning. 

Officers were attempting to serve a warrant to a 35-year-old man at 91st and Custer when he barricaded himself in his apartment and opened fired, grazing three officers with bullets. All three officers are expected to recover. 

One resident, who wished to not be identified, says several bullets came through the walls of her apartment. Cellphone video captured by witnesses shows a man yelling, “You gotta be careful! Kids are here.

He then yells, "Don’t shoot no more!"

The woman in the video cries, "I was sitting on the toilet and the bullets started coming through the wall."

 

“Police didn’t announce themselves; you just hear the banging on the walls, the banging on the windows, them trying to get in," the woman in the video told CBS 58. “It should have been evacuated. They knew what they were coming here for. They knew that it was a possibility that person was armed and dangerous.”

The man barricaded himself in his apartment for more than an hour before shooting. MPD then fired back.

“You can’t just come and serve a search warrant and don’t know if you’re putting other people lives in danger. That’s not okay," said the woman.

She says 16 bullet holes hit the walls of her apartment.

“I was running, running, police, no shield and they didn’t shield us. They were still shooting as we was running, as they was telling us to run. It was just, they didn’t care about nobody but their selves and their coworkers," said the woman.

She says she's lucky to be alive.

“It was just God on my side," she said.