Marine serves two tours, only to be killed by negligent police.

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Old May 18, 2011 | 04:55 PM
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Marine serves two tours, only to be killed by negligent police.


Marine killed by police


"Please send me an ambulance and you can ask more questions later, please!"

Guerena tells the dispatcher that her husband had returned home about 6:30 a.m. after work and was sleeping.

Prompted by the dispatcher, Guerena says her husband was shot in the stomach and hands.

The dispatcher asks Guerena to put her cheek next to her husband's nose and mouth to see if he's breathing, but she replies in Spanish that her husband is face- down.

The operator tells Guerena to grab a cloth and apply pressure to his wounds, but the wife responds frantically: "I can't! I can't! There's a bunch of people outside of my house. I don't know what the heck is happening!"

A dispatcher asks if the people outside are the SWAT members. "I think it's the SWAT, but they ... Oh my God!" Guerena says.

A dispatcher asks that she open the door for the SWAT, but Guerena replies that the door was already opened by police.

"Is anybody coming? Is anybody coming?" she asks.

The operator tells Guerena help is on the way, but they're still trying to figure out what happened.

"I don't know, that's it, whatever I told you, that's it," Guerena says.

Just after the five-minute mark, Guerena's end of the line goes silent.

The two dispatchers spend about four minutes talking to each other and calling out for Guerena while trying to figure out if the call is coming from the same residence where the warrant was served. At the end of the 10-minute 911 call, a dispatcher says she has confirmation that Guerena is outside with deputies on the scene.

This is from Arizona Daily Star reporter Fernanda Echavarri's effort to piece together the death of Jose Guerena, 26, at the hands of a Pima County, Arizona SWAT team. Guerena, who joined the Marines in 2002 and served two tours in Iraq, was killed just after 9 a.m. May 5. Guerera had just gone to bed after working a 12-hour shift at a local mine when his home was invaded as part of a multi-house crackdown by sheriff's deputies.

Like enemy of the state Osama bin Laden, Guerena died with his wife close by. Widow Vanessa Guerena, who hid with her four-year-old son when sheriff's deputies raided the home, fills in detail that has been slow to come from Pima County Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik’s office:

"When I came out the officers dragged me through the kitchen and took me outside, and that's when I saw him laying there gasping for air," Vanessa Guerena said. "I kept begging the officers to call an ambulance that maybe he could make it and that my baby was still inside."

The little boy soon after walked out of the closet on his own. SWAT members took him outside to be with his mother.

"I never imagined I would lose him like that, he was badly injured but I never thought he could be killed by police after he served his country," Vanessa Guerena said.

The family's 5-year-old son was at school that morning and deputies say they thought Guerena's wife and his other child would also be gone when they entered the home.

Guerena says there were no drugs in their house.

Deputies said they seized a "large sum of money from another house" that morning. But they refused to say from which of the homes searched that morning they found narcotics, drug ledgers or drug paraphernalia. Court documents showing what was being sought and was found have not been made public. A computer check on Guerena revealed a couple of traffic tickets and no criminal history.

Tucson KGUN’s Joel Waldman says the SWAT team prevented paramedics from going to work on Guerena for one hour and fourteen minutes.

The sheriff’s department maintains that Guerena was holding an AR-15 when the paramilitary force fired 71 bullets in his home, but other key parts of the government story have collapsed. While PCSD initially claimed Guerena fired the weapon he was alleged to have been holding, the department now says it was a misfire by one of the deputies that caused this deadly group panic inside a home containing a woman and a toddler:

A deputy's bullet struck the side of the doorway, causing chips of wood to fall on his shield. That prompted some members of the team to think the deputy had been shot, [PCSD spokesman Michael] O'Connor said.
Old May 18, 2011 | 05:11 PM
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That is a very saddening story =(. RIP to the marine and prayers to his family.
Old May 18, 2011 | 08:41 PM
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Once again...hope whoever shot him has a painful and slow death this is fuuucked up..
Old May 18, 2011 | 08:55 PM
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rip, this story has a lot of missing holes in it however...

most reports indicate that the marine was pointing his AR-15 at the swat team, so lets not discredit either side just yet.
Old May 18, 2011 | 08:57 PM
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this is terrible.
Old May 18, 2011 | 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by bobb126
rip, this story has a lot of missing holes in it however...

most reports indicate that the marine was pointing his AR-15 at the swat team, so lets not discredit either side just yet.
QFT. The full story hasn't been fleshed out yet, it would be unwise to jump to conclusions.
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"SWAT team prevented paramedics from going to work on Guerena for one hour and fourteen minutes."

really?
Old May 18, 2011 | 10:53 PM
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Read about this yesterday and the marine still had the safety on his gun turned on and was shot at 71 times in 7secs inside his house. The police also never knocked on the door or identified themselves according to the wife.

Apparently its also now legal in Indiana for cops to enter your house illegally and you're not allowed to resist.

Here is the link to the story with more details http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crim...f206f8301.html

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Old May 19, 2011 | 12:03 AM
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Umm wow? How about the marine thought he was going to get attacked by the MOBSTERS in the area?

Either way, a soldier is dead. If it was really for a misfire, Arizona is ****ed.

Sad sad story, protect your country, protect your family.
Old May 19, 2011 | 12:11 AM
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Sucks, cops are loosing it in America. So they shot up his house without entering in? I want to see where a civilian accidentally kills officer, imagine what would happen.

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Old May 19, 2011 | 12:24 AM
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"Like enemy of the state Osama bin Laden, Guerena died with his wife close by."

WTF does that have to do with this???!!!??

He had his M16 because he saw a SWAT team outside his house and didn't know WTF was going on. Trying to protect his family I'm sure. Sounds like a retarded police department fighting crime as good as trying to find a vigina in a gay bar.... Rip Marine.

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Originally Posted by Alliedforces86
"Like enemy of the state Osama bin Laden, Guerena died with his wife close by."

WTF does that have to do with this???!!!??

He had his M16 because he saw a SWAT team outside his house and didn't know WTF was going on. Trying to protect his family I'm sure. Sounds like a retarded police department fighting crime as good as trying to find a vigina in a gay bar.... Rip Marine.
Listen...obviously there is a problem if SWAT felt the need to go over to his house and 'recover' something that is currently undisclosed. Plus, he shouldn't be pointing a gun at a team of people ready to shoot him, even if the safety switch is on. The truth is, we don't know what happened or why the police were there. We don't know of any warrants, illegal activity, or anything else that could have happened. I am sure SWAT had a good reason for being there. YES it is sad that he was killed and I am sure that it wasn't the right thing to do, but not enough of this story has been uncovered to defend either side sufficiently. Both sides of this have missing pieces.
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nothing was found in his house. They went to the wrong house plain and simple
Old May 19, 2011 | 04:17 AM
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Old May 19, 2011 | 04:56 AM
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Sad to hear may he rest in peace!

A story like this happened at a complex My brother used to live at. I was babysitting his kids one day and saw our section surrounded with the swat team. Was hella scary.. They bust through our neighbors door and scared the crap out of our neighbors who were French and didn't know much English. Their mother lived with them and she had a massive heart attack during this and ended up passing away. In the end the police had the wrong address and to top it off wrong complex.



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