Sheriff Dupnik’s SWAT Team Shoots Iraq War Vet in His Home 60 Times

In January the state-run media praised Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik for blaming conservative politics in the state of Arizona for the mass slaughter at a Tucson grocery store.

Will the media praise Dupnik for this latest shooting, too?
Last week Pima County SWAT team shot an Iraq War veteran to death in his home.
They shot Jose Guerena 60 times.

Jose Guerena, 26,survived two tours of duty in Iraq as a marine, only to be gunned down in a hail of 71 bullets in his own Tucson, Arizona home. (Daily Mail)

Iraq War veteran Jose Guerena was gunned down by the Pima County SWAT team after they broke into his house. Guerena did not even fire a shot.

The Pima County officials would not allow medics inside the home for more than an hour after the shooting.

ABC News
reported:

A Tucson, Ariz., SWAT team defends shooting an Iraq War veteran 60 times during a drug raid, although it declines to say whether it found any drugs in the house and has had to retract its claim that the veteran shot first.

And the Pima County sheriff scolded the media for “questioning the legality” of the shooting.

Jose Guerena, 26, died the morning of May 5. He was asleep in his Tucson home after working a night shift at the Asarco copper mine when his wife, Vanessa, saw the armed SWAT team outside her youngest son’s bedroom window.

“She saw a man pointing at her with a gun,” said Reyna Ortiz, 29, a relative who is caring for Vanessa and her children. Ortiz said Vanessa Guerena yelled, “Don’t shoot! I have a baby!”

Vanessa Guerena thought the gunman might be part of a home invasion — especially because two members of her sister-in-law’s family, Cynthia and Manny Orozco, were killed last year in their Tucson home, her lawyer, Chris Scileppi, said. She shouted for her husband in the next room, and he woke up and told his wife to hide in the closet with the child, Joel, 4.

Guerena grabbed his assault rifle and was pointing it at the SWAT team, which was trying to serve a narcotics search warrant as part of a multi-house drug crackdown, when the team broke down the door. At first the Pima County Sheriff’s Office said that Guerena fired first, but on Wednesday officials backtracked and said he had not. “The safety was on and he could not fire,” according to the sheriff’s statement.

How horrible.

Sheriff Dupnik blasted the media’s coverage of the murder this week.

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