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Nos. 77-1698, 77-1210 & 77-1370 19 A factual dispute exists as to the activity inside the apartment. Plaintiffs’ testimony depicts a violent, well- armed, unprovoked attack on the apartment. Plaintiffs testified that the officers did not announce their purpose when they arrived at the apartment. After hearing a knock at the apartment door, Truelock and Bell ran to the rear bedroom to awaken Hampton. Davis burst through the door into the living room and began firing into the darkened room. Clark, in the northwest part of the room about three or four feet from the door, was struck in the heart by a bullet from Davis’ rifle. According to Harris, Clark’s gun went off as he fell. Groth also began firing into the living room from the apartment doorway. Harris was shot as she lay in bed. She testified at trial that she neither fired nor handled a gun during the raid. -The attack from the rear of the apartment was precipitated by the sound of a shotgun blast from within. Carmody broke through the back door and entered the kitchen. Using a .88 revolver, he fired five times. Corbett, Ciszewski, and Broderick followed him into the kitchen, the latter two firing into the two bedrooms from the dining room area. Bell; Truelock, and Johnson emerged from the back bedroom during a pause in the shooting. ; Meanwhile, Gorman had entered the living room and began firing his machinegun into the south wall toward the bedrooms. Davis also began firing into the south wall. Carmody entered the back bedroom and found Hampton lying on his bed.5 Carmody went to the head of the bed clutching a revolver in his right hand. During the course of the firing, Hampton was shot several times in the body and the head. The bullets which went through his brain were never found. Carmody emerged from the bedroom dragging Hampton’s body by the left wrist. In Carmody’s firearms report, he indicated that he had '® Plaintiffs introduced the expert testimony of Eleanor Ber- man, chief toxicologist of Coo County Hospital, indicating that Hampton was drugged at the time of the raid. On the basis of blood samples extracted from his body, she concluded that secobarbital was present in Hampton’s system at the time of his death in an amount which would make it difficult for him to awaken. Bell and O’Neal testified that Hampton was not a drug user.