Tear Gas Raid At Oakland Apartment Building In Foreclosure Leaves Five Families Homeless

In Oakland, California, KTVU-TV Channel 36 reports:

• Five families were still homeless [...] after being displaced by a standoff [...] at their East Oakland apartment building. They said they have been caught in the middle of two raids in just six months and that it's made their lives extremely difficult.

• Tamesisha Marbray said her apartment was boarded up Monday afternoon when she tried to return home. Her home is the apartment building where Oakland Police and the Alameda County Sheriff's SWAT team conducted a raid on Friday. SWAT team members shot tear gas into the building during a search for a shooting suspect they believed was hiding inside. As it turned out, he wasn't there.

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• Residents said the smell of tear gas lingers in their apartments and on their belongings. One woman said her children didn't have clean clothes to wear to school. Tamesisha Marbray said she tried to salvage what she could for her newborn daughter and move their belongings into a relative's van. "All this stuff is brand new stuff. She'll never be able to wear it; it smells like gas," said Marbray. Adding to the residents headaches, a letter from the company managing the apartment building notified them that the building is in foreclosure.

For the story, see Raid At Troubled Apartment Building Leaves Families Homeless.

For follow-up stories, see:

• Tenants nervous to return to raided building,
• Tenants offered way out of troubled building.