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LIMA, Ohio - Lima police yesterday continued to shield the identity of a SWAT officer who fatally shot a mother of six and wounded her 14-month-old son in her arms.

Tarika Wilson, 26, was killed and her son was wounded when Lima police conducted a drug raid on their home Friday night.

Police also refused yesterday to reveal details of the raid and what provoked the shooting. Wilson's family yesterday renewed claims that she was unarmed and not a threat to officers in the house.

Police arrested Anthony Terry, Wilson's boyfriend and father of the 14-month-old-boy. He appeared yesterday in Lima Municipal Court for an initial appearance on a charge of trafficking in drugs.

Judge Rickard Workman denied Terry's request for a personal recognizance bond, setting bond instead at $50,000. Authorities said additional charges are possible. Terry will be arraigned Jan. 11, and a public defender will be assigned to his case.

Family members for Terry were outraged yesterday at the bond amount and stormed out of the courtroom.

Wilson, the mother of six children, ages 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8, was pronounced dead at 218 East Third St., where Special Weapons and Tactics team police officers executed a search warrant at
8:15 p.m. Wilson's youngest child, Sincere Wilson, was taken to Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, where he underwent arm surgery yesterday.

"They shot her for no reason at all," said her cousin, Junior Cook.

Marijuana and crack cocaine were found in the home, police said. Lima Police Chief Greg Garlock this weekend would not identify the officer involved in the shooting but said he has been placed on administrative leave. He could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Chief Garlock says toys outside the home alerted SWAT officers to the possibility of children inside a home, but they proceeded to execute a "high-risk search warrant."

Command officers for the department refused to answer questions yesterday.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation is investigating the shooting.

Lima residents and Wilson's family members attended a Lima City Council meeting last night in hopes of getting answers about the raid and the shooting.

"We are standing to stand tall as a community," Debbie Ballentine, the aunt of Wilson's 4-year-old son, said early in the day. "Right now, they won't tell us who the officer was or anything of that sort."

But later, Ms. Ballentine told The Blade by cell phone that city and police officials' handling of the late-running meeting only continued the relatives' frustration.

"They are not answering our questions," she said. "They are just letting people make statements."

The rental house where Wilson was killed is owned by Derry Glenn, a Lima councilman. He said he doesn't believe drugs were being sold at the house and wants the FBI and other federal agencies to investigate.

Terry and Wilson both have criminal records.

Terry has four felony convictions in Ohio and an Indiana conviction, Judge Workman said. In 1994 he was convicted of drug trafficking and carrying a concealed weapon.

Wilson was arrested near Kalida, Ohio, along with another man in August, 2004, after a drug bust that netted crack cocaine with a street value of more than $24,000, authorities said.

Wilson was convicted of complicity to cocaine trafficking and sentenced to two years in prison.

Ms. Ballentine said Wilson was just a passenger in the car and was not involved in the drug trafficking.

"That was a bogus charge," she said.

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