by Bob Walsh
This happened in Greenville County, SC relatively recently. On June 13 the S.O. got a panic alarm - medical alarm from a cell phone app and responded one deputy. The deputy showed up, tried the door bell, got no response and started nosing around. Things get "fuzzy" from here.
An adult man in the house apparently did not know his mother-in-law had triggered the alarm. He heard somebody ringing the bell at midnight, then prowling around outside the house. He walked towards the front of his house, pistol in hand. (I would have done the same thing.)
The first report by the deputy was that the man inside jerked the door open while holding a gun. The deputy fired multiple times, hitting him multiple times. Unfortunately once the body cam footage was gone over it turns out the resident in fact never opened the door. The deputy fired thru the door and / or adjacent window. The body cam does NOT show the resident ever pointing the gun in the general direction of the deputy.
The resident, Dick Trench, 62, ended up with four bullet wounds. He (and his attorney) assert the deputy did NOT identify himself until AFTER he opened fire. The video on much of the body cam footage has not yet been supplied. Same with the audio. The department says they do NOT plan to release the raw footage or audio, asserting they have no legal obligation to do so. They have not yet offered an explanation of why the written report differs so significantly from the body cam images.
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