Ryan Frederick

I encourage everyone to research this story. Here's the basic gist of it.

"During a jailhouse interview, Frederick said he was sleeping in a back bedroom because his job as a soft drink merchandiser required him to get up early. His dogs, Dora and Bud, were in the house. He woke up because his dogs “were barking like crazy. They’re going like really crazy, so I grab my gun. As I’m walking through the hall, someone comes busting through my door.”

He said intruders were pushing through the bottom panels of the four-panel door, he said. The lighting in the house was dim. Frederick said he didn’t hear anyone say “police” or see identification.

“I was like, 'Oh, God, if I don’t shoot, then he’s going to kill me’ … I think I shot twice. I can’t remember. It happened so fast. All I know is the gun jammed.”

Frederick said he then went back to the bedroom to get a telephone. When he realized police were outside, he walked out of the house and surrendered."

The police had a no knock warrant based on information provided by an informant. This informant broke into Ryan's house a few weeks prior to the raid.

Although few details have been released, it seems to me that the informant was arrested on an unrelated charge and offered a reduced sentence if he could provide information on others. This guy is probably thinking, well there was that guy that I burglarized a few weeks ago. He had a lot of gardening equipment, maybe he's got a grow operation. Ryan was an avid gardener and has a back yard to back this claim up. The raid was carried out, one officer is dead, but they found a few grams of marijuana.

The prosecutor has now raised the crime to capital murder from 1st degree homicide. That means that Ryan purposely and knowingly killed an officer of the law.

So let’s get this straight. This man has a few grams of weed in his house. He hears police at his door and thinks to himself, I'm not going down for a misdemeanor charge of possession alive. So he fires two shots into the door, gun jams. He goes back upstairs to call the police on the police. Then surrenders without a fight when he realizes the police are at his door. Most people following this case will agree that the state messed up. Not just a little bit, but fucked up bad. So the prosecutor is upping the charges to try and force a plea deal (this man is possibly facing the death penalty).

Two more innocent casualties in the war on drugs.