TERRY TALKS ABOUT FATAL HOUSE SHOOTING

LIMA -- Anthony Terry was lying awake in bed when he heard an
explosion outside his girlfriend's home at 218 E. Third St. followed
by police crashing in firing a barrage of gunfire, he said Thursday
from the Allen County jail.

"I heard that boom and like 10 gunshots. I didn't know if somebody was
breaking in the house or shooting in the house," he said.

Terry got up from the bed, which was in a bedroom in the back of the
house, to make his way toward the front of the house. He entered the
dining room and spotted the two young pit bulls that he and his
girlfriend, Tarika Wilson, had, he said.

"They were squirming around in the blood," he said.

Terry had no idea Wilson had been shot and killed by a Lima police
officer during the Jan. 4 raid. He also had no idea Wilson's
1-year-old son, Sincere, had been shot, he said.

"I never found out that my woman got shot until I talked to my mom at
3 in the morning," he said.

A Lima police SWAT officer appeared in front of Terry ordering him to
the floor. Another SWAT officer told that officer to get Terry out of
the house, he said.

The officer standing behind Terry seemed distracted, as if he didn't
hear what the other officer was saying until the officer repeated it,
Terry said.

"The officer was nervous, upset, screaming and yelling at the other
officer to take me out the back door," he said.

Terry was taken out of the house so fast that he didn't know anything
about Wilson's fate. During the raid, he briefly heard her say
something, but it wasn't anything to indicate she had been shot.

"I heard (her) say, 'Babe,'" he said, adding that was the name she had
for him.

He also never heard police saying anything that would indicate an
officer had shot Wilson. The only thing he heard police say was one
officer telling the other to get Terry out of the house, he said.

The entire incident happened very fast, he said.

Terry said police busted into the house at 7 p.m., not after 8 p.m.,
as police reported. He said he is sure of the time because he had just
watched the television news and he looked at the clock in the house as
police walked him out.

The SWAT officers all were wearing their SWAT gear, including helmets,
so he couldn't identify any of them, he said.

Police had Terry put on shoes before taking him outside. He then was
taken to a police car and driven to the Lima Police Department. As he
was being put in the car, he saw the SWAT team run out of the house
and into a van that drove away, he said.

Terry said he has no idea why police would raid the house and
suggested they had the wrong house. He said there were no drugs or
guns in the house.

Police have said they had the right house and drugs were being sold
from it. Lima police Chief Greg Garlock said police found drugs inside
the house after the shooting. Police have declined to say whether
there were weapons found in the house.

Lima police Maj. Kevin Martin declined to comment when told of Terry's
comments. Martin said police are not commenting because of the pending
investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and
Identification and the FBI. The FBI joined BCII in the investigation
at the request of Garlock.

Just hours after the interview with Terry, Assistant Allen County
Prosecutor Dan Berry said Terry had been indicted on three counts of
trafficking in crack cocaine and four counts of trafficking in
marijuana. He will not appear at a previously scheduled hearing today
at municipal court, Berry said.

The crack cocaine charges are from undercover buys in September. Three
of the marijuana buys took place in December, and the fourth buy took
place the day of the police raid, Berry said.

During his interview, Terry said he has been clean for several years
and does not deal drugs.

Terry said he and Wilson had been seeing each other for more than two
years. He said they were hoping to move in together and get married.
He said she was not a violent woman, and he doesn't understand what
she could have done to have a police officer shoot her.

He also said he did not live with her, but stayed there several nights
a week.

Terry also said he is a cousin of 6th Ward City Councilman Derry
Glenn. Glenn owns the home and was renting to Wilson.

Garlock on Wednesday identified the officer who shot Terry as 31-year
veteran Sgt. Joe Chavalia.