Botched police raid in Ohio leaves 17-month-old baby in ICU after injury from flash-bang grenade: report

At around 2:15 pm on Wednesday, a large group of officers from the Elyira Police Special Response Team smashed into a home on Parmely Avenue, with a ring camera capturing the raid.

Courtney Price, the baby's mother, told reporters that her baby son suffered from chemical burns as well as a lack of oxygen after police had thrown flashbang grenades into her home, WKYC reports. Price additionally said the police had raided the wrong residence entirely.

Elyria Police have denied the accusations, claiming that the raid was carried out at the right house and that the child did not sustain any injuries.

Reida Jennings, who rents the home where the raid occurred, said that the baby boy has "got burns all over him" and that the "inside of his lungs are burned."

"He’s already a special-needs baby," she explained, per FOX 8. "He’s a trach baby. He was on his ventilator, they let the baby lay there for about 35 to 45 minutes in the smoke."

"As they are banging on the door, they throw the flash bang through the window and it goes over top of here and hits the baby. The baby is covered in glass," Jennings said.

Jennings said police were "looking for I think a teenager, to my knowledge," and that upon hearing the boy's name, "it sounded familiar because they had been here five times the past year looking for that family and that boy."

"When they entered the door, they seen mine and my husband’s picture on the wall," Jennings claimed. "My husband’s black and they had the picture of the boy and he’s a black boy and he said, ‘well, they have to be related.'"

"He has chemical pneumonitis which is inflammation of the lungs and irritation of the lungs and the soft tissue around the lungs," said Price.

Price told reporters that when police raided the house, she repeatedly screamed, "My baby, my baby! He’s on a ventilator, my baby’s in the house!" Police simply responded by telling her to not worry about her baby, according to her account.