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Thereâs even a hashtag: #FreeMarvinGuy.
âJust let him out!! Heâs served his time!!â, commented one person on a recent story.
Others urge folks not to forget the victim, Charles âChuckâ Dinwiddie, who was a respected Killeen Police Department detective and SWAT team member. He left behind a wife and two children.
Marvin Louis Guy, 56, is accused of shooting Dinwiddie on May 9, 2014, when officers tried to serve a no-knock narcotics warrant at Guyâs home on Circle M Drive in Killeen.
Dinwiddie died two days later. Three other officers were wounded during the incident.
Guy, a suspected drug dealer, has said that he did not know it was police officers who were entering the apartment in the early-morning hours and that he fired in self-defense.
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No-knock warrants will be back up for discussion at the Killeen City Council meeting Tuesday, and this time council members will be talking about putting a permanent end to the controversial police tactic.
No-knock warrants â in which police donât announce themselves before forcefully entering someoneâs home in order to arrest the person â have come under fire in Killeen in recent years.
Two people have died in the Killeen raids, which sometimes include broken glass, explosives to blow off doors, and a lot of guns â mostly in the hands of police, but sometimes in the hands of the residents inside.