Cory Maye, 23, said he was asleep on a chair in the living room of his Prentiss apartment as his 14-month-old daughter slept in the bedroom when he heard a loud crash at his front door. "I immediately ran to my daughter's room, got a pistol, put in a magazine and chambered a round," said Maye, who is on trial for capital murder in Marion County. "As I laid on the floor by the bed, I heard kicks at the back door. I was frightened, I thought someone was trying to break in on me and my daughter."
Maye testified that it was dark in his apartment when he heard someone breaking into the back door, which was located in the bedroom. "That's when I fired the shots," Maye said. "After I fired the shots, I heard them yell 'police! police!' Once I heard them, I put the weapon down and slid it away. I did not know they were police officers."
The more I dig into this the less I buy Maye's story. Read between the lines. Police anounced themselves at the front door. Maye ran into the bedroom retrieved his gun, loaded it, chambered a round. It then sounds like he may have shot through a closed door and hit the officer. Shooting at an officer on the opposite side of a closed door is not self-defense. He never says he saw them, just heard them. He shot through a closed door.
Crackheads aren't known for behaving rationally.