Police Kill Man While Serving Arrest Warrant at Wrong House

A Mississippi police officer fatally shot 41-year-old Ismael Lopez late Sunday night while attempting to serve an arrest warrant. 

A lawyer for the Lopez family says police had the wrong house, NBC Newsreports. According to the Washington Post, Lopez was in bed when he heard a sound outside his home in Southaven. He got up to see what was going on; moments later he was dead. 

Prosecutor John Champion tells the Commercial Appeal that Lopez was pointing a gun at the two police officers outside his house through a partially open door and ignored orders to put the gun down. Champion says it appears one officer shot at a pit bull that ran out of Lopez's home and the other shot at Lopez himself. There were three bullet holes in Lopez's door.

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