Lima Shooting:

IDENTITY OF OFFICER REMAINS SHIELDED, POLICE MUM ON RAID DETAILS

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.