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"Right. We know that one of the three is an infant. It's safe to assume the second person is the infant's mother. So what's your point? Did you expect the infant to be shooting too?"

I think there were a total of four residents at the duplex, including the child.

Post #4 above reads: "Two other residents of the duplex were temporarily detained, but then released without charges, the Associated Press reported."

Two other residents, plus the shooter, plus the child makes it four. I don't think law enforcement would detain and subsequently release a one-year-old child. But I agree with your points above.

I also would expect a 21-year old (the cop killer) not to have a known previous criminal record. Morover, if no drugs were found, it's possible one of the three adults had enough time to dispose of them, especially if they were hidden close to the toilet flush. These criminals ain't stupid, you know.

I think there were a total of four residents at the duplex, including the child.

Incorrect. Clarion Ledger from December 28, 2001 has

Cory Maye, 21, one of three people at the duplex at 1728 Mary St. at the time of the shooting, is charged with capital murder in the officer's death.
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The two other people in the duplex, one a juvenile, were taken into custody, but later were let go. Their names were not released.

There were three there. One was the baby. They had to take the baby into [protective] custody if the parents were in custody

I also would expect a 21-year old (the cop killer) not to have a known previous criminal record. Morover, if no drugs were found, it's possible one of the three adults had enough time to dispose of them, especially if they were hidden close to the toilet flush. These criminals ain't stupid, you know.

You're assuming it was a drug den. There is no evidence in any article I've seen, even hinted at, that anybody flushed anything. I see no evidence that this was anything other than a bogus bust at a wrong address, that turned very badly

In a little more looking, I find one reference to what it was about: "On Dec. 26, in Prentiss, Officer Ron Jones, 29, called his father, Ronald N. Jones, the police chief, for permission to get a search warrant for an apartment where an informer had told him there was crack. An hour later, as Officer Jones led a team into the apartment, he was shot in the abdomen. The suspect in the shooting, Cory Maye, has been charged with capital murder."

An informant said there was crack there. So they go on a big raid. I wonder if they even bothered to find out there was a kid there who would have been endangered in the raid process. Sounds more like sonny boy was trying to make a name for himself, and screwed up

Morover, if no drugs were found, it's possible one of the three adults had enough time to dispose of them, especially if they were hidden close to the toilet flush

Or maybe there were no drugs and the original tip was bogus. The tip was reported to the slain officer anonymously, it was not something the police developed on their own through surveillance or following leads from other cases.

My notion is that if there are so few drugs that they can be quickly flushed down the toilet, it's not worth risking the lives of the officers and possible Innocent "civilians". Just serve the warrant as they are supposed to be served, by knocking on the door and presenting the warrant to the suspect.