Dennis Tuttle, 59, left and Rhogena Nicholas, 58, were identified as the suspects. (Houston Police Department)
Posted on 01/29/2019 4:01:49 PM PST by jazusamo
Among the five Houston police officers injured during a shooting on Monday was a 54-year-old supervisor, described as being “tough as nails.”
The unidentified senior officer, a 32-year veteran of the force who “breached the door” while serving a search warrant at a home of suspected drug dealers, “made entry” because he knew “his partners were down,” Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Tuesday.
The officer was shot after jumping into the action and it marked “the third time in his career he’s been shot,” Acevedo said. He was previously shot in 1992 and 1997, he added.
Acevedo explained that the supervisor later gave a note to another officer that said: “I had to get in there because I knew my guys were down.”
The officer was described by the police chief as being “a big teddy bear,” but also someone who has “tremendous courage” and is “a strong ox.”
“I am going to rub that man for two reasons. One, I want some of his courage to rub off on me and the other thing I want, he’s done something good in life that God really watches over him,” Acevedo said.
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Amen to this good news.
“The shooting erupted after a group of about a dozen members of the Houston police narcotics unit responded to a residence they suspected was a hub for drug dealing”
About a dozen police?
Wasn’t there over 20 police and armored vehicles involved in the recent arrest of Roger Stone?
Dennis Tuttle, 59, left and Rhogena Nicholas, 58, were identified as the suspects. (Houston Police Department)
I believe so.
Unexpected.
Surprising to be so old and still stupid.
Difficult to believe that the Criminal Justice System hadn’t culled them decades ago.
“Unexpected.”
I don’t think it is at all unexpected that those two are dead.
That’s what happens to thugs that ambush cops.
Neither of the had a criminal record.
Suspected based on what? Did they have a warrant for the arrest of the two people they killed or just a warrant to search the property?
I assume they tried to present the warrant in a peaceful manner and give the occupants of the house a chance to cooperate voluntarily? I assume the officer that entered the property was properly and easily identified as a police officer and could not possibly have been misidentified as a home invader? Of course we pretty much know the answer to both these questions.
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Stupid apparently came to them in later life.
whoopsie daisy, but I'm sure they found several kilos of black tar heroin at the residence so that should justify everything.
They were definitely wounded in the raid. I think it’s an unspoken LEO protocol when officers are shot to let the wounded perps bleed out.
None it seems
Cop story doesn’t add up. Supposedly heroin dealers, but no heroin found on the residence.
I wonder if it is a no-knock raid gone wrong, scared citizens thinking it was a home invasion, and a lot of blue on blue fratricide.
It all seems a bit inky, and 2 can’t talk.
It's reported that Tuttle shot the first one through the door after that person shot their dog upon entry. Also that the woan was shot trying the retrieve the shotgun the first an through the door was carrying. We don't know who shot the other three officers. We also don't know how the officers were dressed.
*** The shooting erupted after a group of about a dozen members of the Houston police narcotics unit responded to a residence they suspected was a hub for drug dealing” ***
I wonder if these kinds of incidents would decrease if law enforcement would do things a little more smartly, and a little less Terminator.
In Waco, David Koresh went to the Post Office daily to pick up his mail. Why didn’t the feds just politely walk up to him, serve a warrant, and be done with it?
I guess it’s more fun to terrorize people for weeks, then burn them alive?
These people had to leave home sometime.These big miltary-esque productions a la Storm troopers are costing lives, IMHO.
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