Attempting to serve a search warrant by
entering a house through a window got Killeen, Texas, Police
Detective Charles Dinwiddie shot in the face and killed last May.
It was yet another SWAT raid organized for a purpose other
than the reason they were invented. The police had a search warrant
looking for narcotics at the home of Marvin Louis Guy, 49. They
decided to serve this warrant at 5:30 in the morning and without
knocking on his door. He opened fire on them, killing Dinwiddie and
injuring three others.
Though they found a glass pipe, a grinder, and a pistol, they
did not find any drugs. Former Reason Editor Radley Balko
took note of the deadly raid in May at The Washington
Post. A police informant apparently told them there were bags
of cocaine inside the house, which sounds a lot like
another familiar drug raid in Virginia that got an officer
killed.
The Virginia case ended with Ryan Frederick in prison for 10
years despite his insistence he thought he was defending himself
against in home intruders. He may end up lucky compared to Guy.
Prosecutors in Texas are going to seek the death penalty against
him. KWTX offers a dreadfully written
summary that says next to nothing about the circumstances of
the raid but gives Dinwiddie’s whole life story. Guy faces three
additional charges of attempted capital murder for shooting the
other officers. The story mentions the no-knock raid but fails to
explain why it happened or the failure to find any drugs.
A search for Guy in the
jail inmate locator for Bell County, Texas, shows that he is
being charged only for the shootings. There are no drug-related
charges listed. He is being held on a bond totaling $4.5
million.
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