No-Knock Warrants (again)
Larry Ryan Dunkerly was acting in self-defense when he shot a deputy in the foot last month, his lawyer said at a preliminary hearing Thursday.
Dunkerly, 22, 1703 Erie St. upper, didn’t know that Racine County Sheriff’s deputies were executing a search warrant at his apartment when he opened fire shortly before 6 a.m. on Dec. 12. Instead, Dunkerly thought he was being robbed, lawyer Eric P. Guttenberg said.
Racine Police Investigator George Wanggaard, who interviewed Dunkerly after the shooting, said basically the same thing in his testimony.
“He indicated that he believed he was being robbed,” Wanggaard said. “He armed himself and fired from the doorway.”
Dunkerly was in bed in his apartment when a Racine County Sheriff’s Department SWAT team charged up the stairs to his apartment. Deputies were serving a no-knock search warrant to look for drugs in Dunkerly’s apartment.
Hmmm, seems this could have been avoided by knocking on the door.
