SB Police Officers Kill Man (SB SUN 070806) Incident City's Second Such Incident in '06...

SB police officers kill man
Incident city's second such incident in '06

Emily Sachs, Staff Writer

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SAN BERNARDINO - Narcotics officers serving a search warrant at an apartment Friday morning shot and killed the man they found inside after he brandished a handgun, authorities said

Two San Bernardino police officers fired multiple times at Marc Maxey, 28, of San Bernardino seconds after forcing their way into the apartment in the 23OO block of North Waterman Avenue at 11:09 a.m., a police spokesman, Lt. Mark Garcia said.

Maxey was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead, Garcia said.

He would not say if Maxey had fired the 9mm handgun he was reported to be holding. The gun held a single bullet, which officers displayed at the scene, alongside the gun.

Inside Maxey's one-bedroom apartment, police found a substantial quantity of methamphetamine it "definitely wasn't single use," Garcia said.

Police were investigating the shooting incident as part of departmental protocol. The results of the investigation will not be made public. The District Attorney's Office will complete a separate investigation.

The incident Friday was the second time San Bernardino officers shot and killed a man this year.

The apartment is located in the back of a single-story stucco triplex owned by Maxey's mother, said Willie Crowder, 42, who has lived in the main house on the property for four years and works for Maxey's mother part time doing maintenance.

Crowder's wife, Alicia, and his 10-year-old son were home at the time of the shooting. The boy saw the police, who arrived in unmarked vehicles and, Crowder said, called out to Alicia.

She spent the remainder of the day with Maxey's mother, who lives elsewhere in San Bernardino, Crowder said. Maxey's father was en route from an American Red Cross volunteer trip on the East Coast. Crowder said the man is a retired peace officer.

He said Maxey was a part-time pharmacy student and lived rent-free at the apartment . He occasionally did day labor, but otherwise spent time with friends and a young daughter who visited. Other than errantly parking cars, Crowder said Maxey was a good neighbor the family invited over for barbecues.

According to San Bernardino County Superior Court, a Marc Maxey, born in 1978, pleaded guilty at a 2004 arraignment to possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. He was placed on yearlong probation, which would have ended in December 2005.

All San Bernardino police officers meet with a counselor after being involved in fatal shootings. Not all of them necessarily need much debriefing, said police Sgt. Brian Koerner.

"It just depends on them and the counselor and what they want to talk about," Koerner said.

The two officers in Friday's incident spent the rest of the day taking part in departmental interviews. They were not expected to go on administrative leave, Garcia said.

"Some have to take some time off, some don't. It's just a personal choice," Koerner said.

The last fatal shooting involving San Bernardino police was Jan. 9, when officers chased a speeding car into Rialto and shot Tyrone Brooks, 19, in an alley off East Jackson Street. Residents decried the shooting as unnecessary and proof of the uneasy relationship the struggling neighborhood had with law enforcement.

The area has since become a focus of city improvement.

Inland Empire police officers and deputies have been involved in several other shootings in recent months.

A nationwide lightning rod grew out of the Jan. 29 nonfatal shooting of a newly returned serviceman.

Elio Carrion was a passenger in a car chased by San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Ivory Webb. Carrion was not carrying any weapon.

Webb was the first peace officer in San Bernardino County to be charged in connection with such a shooting in at least 30 years. He has since left the Sheriff's Department.

On June 20 in Riverside County, a Banning police officer fatally shot Jesse Jones, 26, of Banning while following up on a vandalism call.

A Fontana police officer shot and wounded a man June 24 who reportedly pointed a gun at him at McDermott Park in the early morning.

Fontana police also were involved in three other shootings, one of them fatal, over a one-month period in early spring.

The deadly incident took place March 30 on North K Street in San Bernardino, when an undercover detective was wounded and the suspect killed. The man was identified as Ralph Larios, 22, of San Bernardino.

Staff writer Mike Cruz contributed to this report.

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It seems to me that this report was just some way to find all the Officer involved shootings that happened in the Inland Empire, and beyond!! The ones that he is talking about occurred when Officers of High Tactic teams entered a house on a High Tactic Search warrant!! They are dangerous. I have been on a few. My friend was shot in the leg on one. The Officer was carried out and I was at another scene and raced code three to get there and he was gone already, but we still had to serve the search warrants that were set up because they were supposed to be set up to serviced all at the same time.

When you enter a house you hit the door with this 20lb door knocker, that knocks the door open, you have to enter to tell everyone to move to the floor, the element is to surprise the suspect, but we do this the same every time for many reasons. one very big one is that the suspects that we arrest know the Police and how we do things, so if we were to enter differently they would think that it was the other Gang trying to steal his drugs. that is the other bad part. The Rival Gangs will copy the police to steal the drugs of his rival gang to try to cripple their profits. It is like K-Mart going to Wal-Mart and stealing all their clothing lines to try to close them down, same principal.

So when you read this and you see that it was of Drug warrant service it was because when we did the entry the suspect went for or had a gun in their hand when they entered the building. The traffic Stops are no questions asked, each incident is different, and everyone is different. we don't know why we do the things that we do, but we do. some of these are suicide by cop, and well some are just bad men that it was there time to get shot!!

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