Docks Victims - NYC Woman Dies of Heart Attack from Flash Grenade Used Saturday by NYPD

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Wed, May 21, 2003 7:06PM

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New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Cops' tragic grenade raid
By AUSTIN FENNER, MAKI BECKER and MICHELE McPHEE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Saturday, May 17th, 2003

A Harlem woman died of a heart attack after police hurled a flash grenade into her apartment during a mistaken raid yesterday morning. Heavily armed NYPD Emergency Service Unit cops smashed down the woman's door at 310 W. 143rd St., believing that guns and drugs were in the sixth-floor apartment, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

Instead, they found Alberta Spruill, 57, a beloved church member and longtime city employee, who was getting ready to go to work when the grenade went off about 6:10 a.m. - creating a deafening boom and a
blinding flash.

For more information: http://www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?ar...

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