Government mercenaries break into home over suspicion of a few plants inside that grow in nature. Let this be a lesson to the criminals with badges that breaking into homes unannounced will get you justifiably shot. Exactly how is a victim of a break-in supposed to know they are cops if they don't announce who they are? How can the police just assume that the home invasion victim will assume the invaders are the police? Is it not in the realm of possibility that someone breaking into your house in the middle of the night could be a murderous criminal?
Unfortunately, the victim of the break-in will probably be convicted of murder because the vast majority of the people in the U.S. worship authority figures and they think they can do little to no wrong.
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According to the Bryan-College Station Eagle, Sowders had obtained a search warrant for the residence after obtaining information that the homeowner was growing marijuana and possibly had stolen guns. The warrant was a "no-knock" warrant, meaning police could forcibly enter the residence without giving residents a chance to respond.
Sowders, the first officer through the door, was shot and killed by homeowner Henry Goedrich Magee, 28, who has now been charged with capital murder. But Magee's attorney, famed Houston defense lawyer Dick DeGuerin, said Magee and his pregnant girlfriend were sleeping in the home when they heard "explosives" going off and loud pounding at the door. Moments later, the door burst open and a person Magee couldn't identify entered the residence. Magee grabbed a rifle leaning against his bedroom door frame and shot Sowders. According to DeGuerin, Magee shot him because he "believed the man rushing in was an intruder and he needed to defend himself."
"The danger is that if you're sitting in your home and it's pitch black outside and your door gets busted in without warning, what the hell are you supposed to do?" DeGuerin [no-knoch raid victim's attorney] said.
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