Another police blunder led to the shooting of a man in Texas who believed his house was being burglarized after hearing loud pounding on his front door at 1:45 a.m. last week.

Thomas Simpson said he stepped out of his garage with a gun to confront the alleged intruders, but then dropped the gun when he realized they were cops.

But the Grand Prairie police officers claimed they were in fear for their lives and fired several shots after he had dropped the gun. Fortunately, he was only struck once in the leg and is recovering from the gunshot wound.

However, other bullets struck the walls of his home, and he was concerned his family inside the home had been shot in their sleep. One of the bullets struck a water pipe, flooding the family’s home.

“My nephew was on the other side of this wal

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