Lima, Ohio police shoot and kill mother, wound baby in drug raid

[D-Day]

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.

toledoblade.com -- Lima shooting: Identity of officer remains shielded, police mum on raid details

[A2rider]

So many things to say, but won't say any of them.

[antiq]

Originally Posted by A2rider

So many things to say, but won't say any of them.

+10,000

[Spok]

Originally Posted by A2rider

So many things to say, but won't say any of them.

Originally Posted by antiq

+10,000

I'll say em

I'm sorry for the loss of her life and the injury to the baby. All the facts have not come out yet only the word of one of those arrested on the scene.

shame on her for having children in a situation like that, a house full of drugs. I'd not say she got what she deserved but if not for that, she'd be alive today!

Period.

[Idaho]

Originally Posted by Spok

I'll say em

I'm sorry for the loss of her life and the injury to the baby. All the facts have not come out yet only the word of one of those arrested on the scene.

shame on her for having children in a situation like that, a house full of drugs. I'd not say she got what she deserved but if not for that, she'd be alive today!

Period.

Well said.

[elr658]

Tragic about the kid. Lima, Ohio's insurance company will write the baby daddy a ten million dollar check. As far as momma, she's a drug mule. Collateral damage.

We need a license to drive a moped, how about one to procreate. Mommy would HARD fail.


I predict this thread will disappear faster than a Twinkie in ELR658's toolbox.

[Ronmac1118]

I agree Spok and Idaho, kids age 3 4 5 6 darn she been doing some serious kid making, to get them checks, huh

[A2rider]

They only thing that slowed her down on the procreation was the 2 years she spent in jail.

[trikebubble]

Too bad people confuse the concept of "rights" vs. "privelage" when considering having a child, or six.

I feel for those kids, they get the short end of the stick, and have been put in a situation that they had no control in.

[Army_of_Ninja]

What the H E Double Hockey Sticks was he doing out of jail already in the first place? I hate how our prisons are filled with people smoking pot so that people who sell CRACK cocaine only serve minimal sentences.

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.

[Razorbladesmile]

Hmm lets run down the things wrong here:

1. Living in a house with 6 kids where drugs are being sold-FAIL

2. Having 6 kids by the time you are 26 - FAIL

3. Naming your child Sincere? - FAIL

4. Councilman owning the home where drugs WERE found but not beliving they were there. - FAIL

Whole lot of fail there. Sure they probably did exactly what the SWAT team wanted and the po-po's just shot them for no reason...MMHmm. I wonder how many guns they had in that house? I wonder how many other adults were in the house? How many of them tried to dive out the back door or were reaching under pillows or chairs?

Sorry she died but seriously if you make the choice to live that way ..well you die by your choices. I am sure she never said no to the drug money they were bringing in.

[Army_of_Ninja]

Reflexive fire is a training technique where you get 2 seconds to decide between threat and non threat. We dont have the facts as of now but i do believe that there could have been possible failure in the swat members tactics in the fact he winged the child. You have only a split moment decision and then a lifetime to go over that decision and until all the facts in the case are presented no one can say wether he was in the right or wrong in taking the shot.

[sweetlilred2002]

Maybe those children will have a snowballs chance in H*LL now if they are put into a stable, nurturing surrounding.

[Gpz1100]

Originally Posted by Razorbladesmile

Hmm lets run down the things wrong here:

1. Living in a house with 6 kids where drugs are being sold-FAIL

2. Having 6 kids by the time you are 26 - FAIL

3. Naming your child Sincere? - FAIL

4. Councilman owning the home where drugs WERE found but not beliving they were there. - FAIL

Whole lot of fail there. Sure they probably did exactly what the SWAT team wanted and the po-po's just shot them for no reason...MMHmm. I wonder how many guns they had in that house? I wonder how many other adults were in the house? How many of them tried to dive out the back door or were reaching under pillows or chairs?

Sorry she died but seriously if you make the choice to live that way ..well you die by your choices. I am sure she never said no to the drug money they were bringing in.

Ditto on almost everything
I ain't sorry she's dead.


"...insurance company will write the baby daddy a ten million dollar check."
sad but true. "Daddy" shouldn't get any compensation, he should be paying it.


Too bad we can’t get the drug czars to put a sterilizer in the cocaine…

[nedley]

a tragedy, no doubt. But I'm reminded on a basic tenant that goes something like..."you reap what you sow".

[SilverEagle]

Originally Posted by Spok

I'll say em

I'm sorry for the loss of her life and the injury to the baby. All the facts have not come out yet only the word of one of those arrested on the scene.

shame on her for having children in a situation like that, a house full of drugs. I'd not say she got what she deserved but if not for that, she'd be alive today!

Period.

Ditto, Dave.........sad for the kids that have no say. But I would not choose those parents for those kids.

People are always fast to rat on LEO's and such........but THEY don't have to make a life or death decision in their jobs I think?

[katmando]

Wow,six kids.How else would she raise money to feed them?Man,what is this world coming to.People don't think.They just exist inhale,ingest,then regurgitate it all.

[likearock4x4]

Sad day in many ways here.

[Granny]

6 kids under 8 in a house full of drugs says it all.

[03 Meanie Man]

I find it amazing that the family was p!ssed when the Judge didn't release the offender on PR. Exactly how much personal recognizance does a multiple offending drug dealer have?

He chose the life that put his and others lifes in danger of exactly what happened, why be upset when it does. I hope they put him away for life, and they better not let him near those kids again!!