Harding Street victims families sue city and Houston cops, likening botched raid to Training Day
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Crime scene tape is shown in the yard of home at 7815 Harding Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019 where five Houston Police Officers were shot in a gun battle while serving a search warrant on Monday. Police identified the two suspects who died as Rhogena Nicholas, 58, and Dennis Tuttle, 59.Melissa Phillip, Staff photographer / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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John Nicholas, the brother of Rhogena Nicholas who was killed in a botched drug raid two years ago, makes a pause while answering questions from the press, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, in Houston. Rhogena Nicholas’ family filed two lawsuits Wednesday night in federal court in Houston. The suits name the city of Houston and some current and former members of the Houston Police Department.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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On the anniversary of the botched drug raid that led to the deaths of Dennis and Rhogena Tuttle, a candlelight vigil is held on the doorstep of their home. Taken on Jan. 28, 2020.
Twelve HPD officers in total have been indicted. Two are charged with first-degree murder.
Six more HPD officers were indicted Monday in connection with the 2019 Harding Street raid that led to the deaths of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas.
Officer Felipe Gallegos was indicted for murder, a first-degree felony, and faces life in prison.
Officers Oscar Pardo, Cedell Lovings, Nadeem Ashraf, Clemente Reyna, and Thomas Wood are being charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and other first-degree felonies that could result in life sentences, after prosecutors say their roles were part of an ongoing attempt to steal overtime from the city.
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) The lawyer of a Houston police officer who is facing a murder charge in a botched drug raid believes a Harris County grand jury indicted a hero.
A day after being the second officer indicted with murder in the 2019 HPD raid that left a married couple dead, Felipe Gallegos, his wife and his parents were front and center during a news conference on Tuesday. Gallegos turned himself in and was granted a $50,000 bond after the murder indictment. It s a sad day in Harris County.
Gallegos lawyer, famed defense attorney Rusty Hardin, insisted his client did not know the no knock warrant was being executed under faulty information. Therefore, Hardin said, Gallegos acted in defense of fellow officers and himself when they came under fire that day.