Posted on 05/14/2011 7:04:25 AM PDT by petitfour
The wife of a Tucson man killed in a Pima County SWAT raid May 5 pleaded for five minutes with 911 dispatchers to send an ambulance for her mortally wounded husband, audio records show.
Often through tears and sometimes in broken English, Vanessa Guerena, tells 911 operators that her husband had been shot by a "bunch of people" who opened the door of their southwest-side home and "just shoot him." Meanwhile, dispatchers worked to determine if she was calling from a house where the SWAT team was serving a search warrant, audio released Friday by Drexel Heights Fire Department reveals. It takes about an hour for waiting medics to know what happened, and the man is dead before fire crews are allowed into the home.
Jose Guerena, 26, a former Marine, was sleeping after the graveyard shift at Asarco Mission mine about 9:30 a.m. when his wife woke him saying she heard noises outside and a man was at their window. Guerena told his wife to hide in a closet with their 4-year-old son, his wife has said. He grabbed an AR-15 rifle and moments later was slumped in the kitchen, mortally wounded from a hail of gunfire.
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We are demanding police level restraint of soldiers in kill or be killed wars, and then jail them for being soldiers. We are allowing police to become soldiers, with authority to shoot first and ask questions later, to the detriment of society and the pile of innocent bodies they leave behind.
No one goes to jail. If a private citizen did this they would be executed.
You’re breaking my heart, too...
Poor lady.
I am upset not with all cops...I know some and they are great and I wouldn’t want their job.
HOWEVER.....THESE DRUG SWAT TEAMS HAVE GOT TO GO!!
this dammmmmm WOD has got to go!
I am just heartbroken about this story...it just enrages me and turns my stomach! these SWAT drug vigalentes have got to be stopped.And Bill Bennet will go on and on about how great the WAR on Drugs is and “Oh, well, that’s the price we pay.”
And for what???More money for the huge money making WOD??
Why are we putting up with this?
The govt just calls them “mistakes.”
“Oops, your husband is dead. My bad. Later!”
When the victim is dead, any story will do.
There are quite a few who have supported the actions in this case. It happens every time.
When cops start condemning actions such as this then I’ll listen to talk of patriots.
You're right ... it's the rotten 99% that give the rest a bad name.
Considering your "tag line", you're one of the 99%.
I think the name, address and photograph of each swat member should be widely posted on the internet.
Not even. Why didn't they do their homework and apprehend him as he drove into his driveway after his coal mine shift? Shades of Ruby Ridge and Waco. WTF, over.
I believe that was in Las Vegas.
One wonders how THEY would react to “no-knock, no-announce” raids.
History will scorn that man.
Yup...I listen to his radio show am on way to work cause he has some good guests..but he is getting so self serving its hard to listen to him.
I didn’t know he had a gambling problem and was the main pusher of the WOD. Yeesh.
I wonder how HE would have liked SWAT to come to HIS house on a gambling raid.
I feel along with you! You can just see the brokenness of her heart in her eyes and face. It will be a long time before she even begins to heal over this. And her kids, especially the one child that was at home, will always have nightmares over this.
I hope she receives tens of millions of dollars because of this. I for one, if on the jury, would award such a settlement, in fact I would demand it!
Her husband seemed to be one fine outstanding young man, husband, and father. A real contributor to our society!
God comfort this dear soul and her children. I cry for her in my heart.
*Doh!*
Las Vegas, Phoenix, same dif! ;^)
(Thanks ... I needed that!)
Exactly what happened in Atlanta a few short years ago, where the Swat team murdered a precious dear old lady, becasue they went to the wrong house. And then they tried to cover it up by lying, and trying to get their snitch to lie for them. They are now in prison.
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