NEW YORK (AP) — The death of a Harlem woman who went into cardiac arrest after a mistaken drug raid on her apartment has been ruled a homicide.
A police informant had wrongly identified 57-year-old Alberta Spruill's apartment as one used by a drug dealer to stash cocaine and heroin. During the raid May 16, officers detonated a flash grenade and handcuffed the woman.
Spruill's heart disease was aggravated by the raid, the medical examiner's office said Tuesday.