A family wants answers after campus police at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, stormed their daughter's dorm room at 3 a.m. with their guns drawn.
A group of students filed a false police report against 17-year-old Christin Evans, which is what led to police entering her room while she was sleeping on September 13, KTRK reported. Ten students - including three of Evans' roommates - allegedly told a resident assistant that Evans had scissors and was going to stab other students. The RA then called the police.
“Their daughter was sleeping and awoken at 3 o’clock in the morning by local police with flashlights shining out and their guns drawn. This could have been a Breonna Taylor circumstance,” said Randall Kallinen, the civil rights attorney hired by Evans' family.
The teen's family believe that the swatting call was racially motivated because Evans is Black.
"I want justice. They played with her life," said her mother LaShondra Evans.
The family wants to see the group of students punished for making the false report. SFA is investigating what happened and that the "students responsible will be held accountable for their actions at every possible level," SFA Chief of Police John Fields said in a statement.
Evans, who is originally from Houston, said that the incident ruined her freshman year and that she now has trouble sleeping.
“I feel shaken. I don’t even know how to think,” she said. “I can’t sleep at night because of this. It has made me really paranoid.”
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