Overview
- Video obtained by NBC and published this week shows a wooden second-story deck at a Huntsville, Missouri, apartment detaching and collapsing beneath nine task force members, sending them several feet to the ground.
- Five officers were hospitalized with broken bones, torn muscles or concussions and are recovering, though the U.S. Marshals Service said a few may face longer-term effects.
- The team was executing a list of roughly 30 warrants as part of Operation Adam’s Watch when the July 21 incident occurred, officials said.
- The subject of the warrant, Jacob Alexander Munoz, a 26-year-old convicted in 2022 of possessing child pornography and listed on Missouri’s sex-offender registry, was not present during the collapse and surrendered later that day.
- U.S. Marshals officials said there were no accidental gun discharges, credited officers’ training, and noted the footage has prompted attention to on-scene structural safety and potential follow-up reviews of raid procedures and building conditions.