SWAT guns down US Marine in home

[Shadowrider]

Norman, gotta agree with you on the source. But here's a little more recent news from a local station. It's not looking good. Seems that a neighbor is corroborating the widow's story. Be sure to check out the video on the link too.

I dunno what the answer is. I can't fault a cop for shooting a man who is pointing a rifle at him. But why do they have to breach the door in 15 seconds? It's not like they are going anywhere. Sounds like to me that they are fully aware of the home invasions there. Lots of questions for sure.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN9-TV) - A decorated Marine's family cannot believe their loved one, who served two tours of duty overseas, is gone; never expecting him to die here at home at the hands of law enforcement.

A Pima County Sheriff's Department SWAT team shot and killed Jose Guerena eight days ago; it was executing a search warrant. Four days ago, in a news conference, a sheriff's deputy said the department makes it clear when SWAT is about to enter a home. Lt. Michael O'Connor says SWAT says it never wants to be mistaken for other people, "We had our large armored vehicle there with the markings on it. It also has lights and sirens. It was going. So we do everything we can to try to portray the image that we're law enforcement, we're not home invaders."

But, Guerena's wife, Vanessa, who hid in the closet with her youngest son while 71 rounds were fired her husband's direction, said she heard nothing. At any point did you hear them yell, ‘police" or ‘SWAT'?" KGUN9 asked. "No, no!" answered Guerena.

A neighbor who heard the shooting corroborates the wife's account, "The only sirens I heard out here were like maybe 20-30 minutes into the entire ordeal," said David Watson.

Watson is very familiar with gunfire and stressful situations; he's a Vietnam combat veteran, "I want to make this as clear as possible: you only heard the announcements after you heard the gunfire?" asked KGUN9 reporter Joel Waldman. Watson quickly answered, "Yes!"

Raising questions about this assertion: "This was not a "no knock" warrant. We come in very high profile with lights and sirens. We go to the door. We pound on the door. We wait 15 seconds, and, then, we breach the door with a heavy tool and open the door," explained O'Connor.

Today, KGUN9 also learned SWAT Guerena's neighbor's house. "When I came home, the whole house was searched. All the doors were open. And, (our house) was searched through; it was like an invasion of privacy," said Carissa Franco.

SWAT says it was concerned about a hole in the Franco's home, worried someone else could've been wounded. So, it said it did what they needed to get inside.

Pima County released a statement about that breach, saying in part, "The Regional SWAT Team made entry into two additional residences very soon after the deadly force encounter. This was done in order to ensure that there were no injured persons in those residences as a result of the shooting. These entries were made without warrants due to the exigency of the circumstances. No one was home at either residence when entry was made.

Source

 

[Billybob]

TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) - A Pima County judge has sealed court documents on the drug conspiracy investigation that led to last Thursday's deadly SWAT raid at a southwest side home.

http://www.kold.com/story/14630253/family-of
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TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - 9 On Your Side has uncovered startling new information in the case of a man SWAT team members killed May 5.
Medical attention was standing by to try to save Jose Guereña.
Paramedics waited more than an hour.

http://www.kgun9.com/story/14629829/medical-care-blocked-for-man-killed-by-swat

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Three other homes within a quarter mile of the Guerena house were served search warrants that morning as part of the sheriff's investigation. The addresses and the names of people who live in the homes have not been made public. However, the Sheriff's Department has said they found drugs and money.

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/article_b3177522-baa0-5c9e-9f0d-d3d7da6e9e4b.html

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Raw video: Sheriff's Office interview on fatal SWAT raid

http://www.kgun9.com/story/14643812...t-narcotics-related-material-that-can-be-drug

 

[GlockedandLoaded]

looks like it is what it is

 

[peanut]

We're from the .govt. and we're here to help!

 

[SMS]

His status as a veteran and survivor of tours in Iraq is completely irrelevent to the case at hand. There are plenty of scumbags out there with DD214s....

Not saying he was into something dirty, but using his veteran status is an emotional appeal when what is really needed is facts and truth.

 

[Koshinn]

On a side note I lol'd at how that aticle was written. It's unfortunate the man is dead, but could you have not found an actual news story instead of the sovereign nation style BS?

I posted a warning about the article when I made the thread. :p

 

[penismightier]

I posted a warning about the article when I made the thread. :p

I totally missed the warning too, so don't feel bad.


This is a really bad situation all around, I feel sorry for everyone involved.

 

[Shootin 4 Fun]

So this was a very dynamic scene, a very dangerous situation for the officers that were there, and obviously dangerous for the victim, this individual who was shot, who brought this all on himself by presenting himself the way he did.

I appreciate the risks that cops take, but at what point do the cops stand up to administration and refuse to break into someone's home? It's not like they couldn't have laid in wait and caught him coming out of the house and taken him into custody when he wasn't packing his "AR-15 military type assault weapon".

 

[dutchwrangler]

When are folks going to realize that cops are government employees? And that government is not our friend? Local cops should act like local cops and not fed.gov kicking doors and motoring around in armored vehicles and using battering rams to bust into peoples homes.

 

[MaddSkillz]

So I guess it was entirely impossible to do a little investigating, find out what he drives, where he works, the hours he works and arrest him that way (if they had sufficient evidence to do so). Instead they felt the only option was to put him, them and his innocent family at risk?

Okay.