US Marshals hold mom and baby at gunpoint after accidentally raiding wrong apartment

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US Marshals on the hunt for a murder suspect held a young Florida mom and her baby at gunpoint after turning up at the wrong apartment.

In a TikTok video uploaded to the platform last weekend, Kada Staples explained that she and her three-month-old daughter were fast asleep when several gun-wielding men turned up at her door.

She wrote alongside the video: "When the US Marshals show up to your house and rush you and your newborn baby out, running all through your home telling you they know you are lying and you’re hiding someone in there just to find out they’re at the wrong apartment.

"Me and my newborn baby had guns pointed at us from every direction and they were at the wrong place I'm shaking they literally could’ve killed us. [sic]"

Check out the uneasy footage here:

The mom and her baby had been taking a nap when her Ring doorbell suddenly pinged. When she clicked on the doorbell app, she was alarmed to see two men in bulletproof vests standing outside her door holding guns.

The video contains doorbell cam footage of the alarming encounter between the 22-year-old mom and the armed agents. After knocking on the door, they order Staples to come out, saying "we know he's in there."

Despite repeatedly telling the men that she and her baby are alone in the apartment, the marshal insists: "Tell him to come out with his hands up. We know he's in there. The place is surrounded."

Understandably distressed by the situation, Staples proceeds to put her barking dog away in his cage. She then opens the door for the US Marshals, who hold guns up at the sobbing mom and her baby before running into her home.

"With that, they run in my apartment," she continued. "There's probably 6 or 7 of them out there with guns. 3 or 4 of them run into my apartment and are running around. They are still yelling at me that I'm lying."

Staples then explained that the agents eventually realized that they turned up at the wrong apartment and left her home to raid a neighboring apartment.

Featured image credit: US Marshals / Alamy