Gunfire in the Night

摘要

It began as a peculiar call for help in the night. Two cousins of 19-year-old Tyisha Miller, a night-school student in Riverside, Calif., called 911 to report that she was locked inside a car at a gas station. She appeared to be unconscious and shaking, and there was a gun in her lap. Five officers arrived on the scene to make it safe for paramedics. One shattered the driver's side window with his baton, preparing to remove the gun, while the others took aim and waited nervously. Then everything exploded. Cops say Miller moved suddenly, a gunshot rang out and the officers opened fire. When it was over, Tyisha Miller ky dead in the car, her body blasted with a dozen bullets, four of them in the head. And no one seemed to know why.