A Tucson, Ariz., SWAT team defends shooting an Iraq War veteran 60 times during a drug raid, although it declines to say whether it found any drugs in the house and has had to retract its claim that the veteran shot first.
And the Pima County sheriff scolded the media for "questioning the legality" of the shooting.
Jose Guerena, 26, died the morning of May 5. He was asleep in his Tucson home after working a night shift at the Asarco copper mine when his wife, Vanessa, saw the armed SWAT team outside her youngest son's bedroom window.
"She saw a man pointing at her with a gun," said Reyna Ortiz, 29, a relative who is caring for Vanessa and her children. Ortiz said Vanessa Guerena yelled, "Don't shoot! I have a baby!"
Vanessa Guerena thought the gunman might be part of a home invasion -- especially because two members of her sister-in-law's family, Cynthia and Manny Orozco, were killed last year in their Tucson home, her lawyer, Chris Scileppi, said. She shouted for her husband in the next room, and he woke up and told his wife to hide in the closet with the child, Joel, 4.
SWAT officers fired at least 71 shots at suspect Jose Guerena, a former U.S. Marine, and a family struggles to put the pieces together. 7-Year-Old Killed in Detroit Police Raid Watch Video
Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multi-house drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. At first the Pima County Sheriff's Office said that Guerena fired first, but on Wednesday officials backtracked and said he had not. "The safety was on and he could not fire," according to the sheriff's statement.
They found body armor and weapons [the guy was a Marine, wtf else did they expect to find?].. but the real kicker was that they found a picture of Jesus Malverde in the house!! Boy, a picture of a Folk Hero of Sinaloa.. now that is some proof!!
Stupid swat assholes found nothing in other words...
This is a true tale.. I knew a guy that saw some officers sneaking around outside his house, actually his wife was washing some dishes and she saw them... he's a two hitches in Vietnam guy that does Martial Arts all the time.. so he sneaked out, subdued all the guys and took their leader captive in a patrol car, got on the radio and told them to apologize to him and they could have their leader guy back... they did apologize and he finished breakfast and got to work about an hour late...
