Police Overreacted, Wife Says

Man Who Was Shot Is Recovering

Wife Calls Arundel Officers' Conduct 'Outrageous'

According to police, he became belligerent, insisted that they leave and assaulted them.

Leah Housley said her husband told police to leave when they did not show documentation but instead asked to see her. In the house, he called 911 to say police assaulted him. Officers, still outside, were kicking the kitchen door and Leah Housely called out to them that she would come out as she dealt with the dog, she said.

"I put the dog in the bathroom. I was about to close the door, and it was like a bomb going off, and there was glass [from the kitchen door] everywhere," she said.

Leah Housley said she couldn't see all the commotion, but she heard her husband cry out, apparently after he was pepper-sprayed and jolted with a Taser. "Then all of a sudden I heard gunshots," she said.

"What officers will do is try various levels of force, nonlethal, to try to subdue someone," Fredericks said. Housley had raised a chair over an officer who was on the floor, and another officer shot Housley because he feared for his partner's safety, Fredericks said.

But Leah Housley said her husband appeared to be trying to protect himself with the chair.