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There’s even a hashtag: #FreeMarvinGuy. “Just let him out!! He’s served his time!!”, commented one person on a recent story. Others urge folks not to forget the victim, Charles “Chuck” Dinwiddie, who was a respected Killeen Police Department detective and SWAT team member. He left behind a wife and two children. Marvin Louis Guy, 56, is accused of shooting Dinwiddie on May 9, 2014, when officers tried to serve a no-knock narcotics warrant at Guy’s home on Circle M Drive in Killeen. Dinwiddie died two days later. Three other officers were wounded during the i...

No-knock warrants will be back up for discussion at the Killeen City Council meeting Tuesday, and this time council members will be talking about putting a permanent end to the controversial police tactic. No-knock warrants — in which police don’t announce themselves before forcefully entering someone’s home in order to arrest the person — have come under fire in Killeen in recent years. Two people have died in the Killeen raids, which sometimes include broken glass, explosives to blow off doors, and a lot of guns — mostly in the hands of police, but sometimes in the ...

Marvin Guy hires new attorneys in capital murder case During a short hearing on Monday afternoon, the defendant in a 2014 Killeen capital murder case officially hired new attorneys, which could delay a jury trial further. Marvin Louis Guy, 56, has been held in the Bell County Jail since being booked on May 10, 2014, on four capital felony charges. Innocence Project of Texas Executive Director Mike Ware will be first chair on Guy’s case, with Justin A. Moore, a criminal defense attorney from Dallas, as second chair. Guy is accused of shooting a Killeen Police Department detective, who lat...

During a short hearing on Monday afternoon, the defendant in a 2014 Killeen capital murder case officially hired new attorneys, which could delay a jury trial further. Marvin Louis Guy, 56, has been held in the Bell County Jail since being booked on May 10, 2014, on four capital felony charges. Innocence Project of Texas Executive Director Mike Ware will be first chair on Guy’s case, with Justin A. Moore, a criminal defense attorney from Dallas, as second chair. Guy is accused of shooting a Killeen Police Department detective, who later died, during a no-knock raid on Guy’s residenc...

Two area state legislators are split on their views of a series of identical bills that would effectively put an end to a police department’s use of no-knock entries in Texas. According to legislative records, the first bill to be filed was Senate Bill 175 on Nov. 10, 2020, authored by Sen. Borris Miles, D-Houston. Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, D-McAllen, has been added as a co-author. In January, four representatives — Reps. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas; Ron Reynolds, D-Missouri City; Jeff Cason, R-Bedford and James Talarico, D-Round Rock — filed House Bill 1272. Both bil...