Mourners remember detective killed in line of duty

Angelak, Have you been keeping up with all of this... They recovered marijuana from the house... and how do you know he was sleeping... Were you there... As posted previously if you don't know the facts and can't keep up with what was already told by the media, not that they're right half the time, you probably shouldn't waste your time commenting... Try to keep up please!

can buy a badge and a helmet with police printed on it. Anybody can stand at your door and shout "police". It doesn't mean they are the police. And at 8:30 in the middle of January, it might as well be the middle of the night. The guy wasn't a convicted killer or child molester. He doesn't even have a felony. Just your every day average joe that may smoke a little in the privacy of his own home. No different than you 40,50, 60 or older people that come home from work and pop the top on a can of beer or pour yourselves a bourbon. But because the people with the guns have you told you all your pathetic lives that marijuana is bad, well then it must be bad. We need to bust peoples doors down and stop this outrageous bunch of lawbreakers. Sheep! I guess as long as you wear a badge and a gun, you live at the foot of the cross and can do no wrong.

In regards to weed not being such a big deal, well, I have seem first hand what it can do to people that smoke it. It affect everyone different - some people just mellow out and go to sleep, others get all hype and some others need it to give them the extra boost of confidence. I can tell you that weed is just as addictive then Heroin or crack; drug dealers make just as much money of it and most smalltime dealers start out in weed and then step up to the bigger drugs. So, would you like for this man to be selling weed to your kids? Get them addicted to it to just ending up letting them use bigger and badder drugs?
Hopefully we will all find out the whole truth. In the meantime you have two mothers mourning the loss of their son - one lost forever and the other locked up. To me that is the part that we all need to remember, two lives lost.

Are we all on the same page here? Are we all reading and watching the same news? When I watched the suspect on TV last night, it turned my stomach. Now to read the comments made to my question, makes me hope I don't live in the same area those people live in. As one of the other commentors stated, the police was wearing body armour clearly stating who they were; they anounced themselves and did what we ask from them...simply to do their job and to protect us. The guy was in his house at 830pm, not the middle of the night, downstairs, with the bedrooms being upstairs, stating he thought someone was breaking into his house, like someone did the previous week across the street, not his house but across the street. So, maybe he was high and did not hear anything and just reacted the wrong way. But if he thought someone was breaking in, why didn't he call 911 instead of grabbing his gun? Did he have is gun laying on his chest or by his side, so that he was able to shoot as soon as the police officers entered the building? Yes, according to all of the reports, he shot as soon as the door flew open. There are a lot of unanswered questions and only time will reveal the truth. Hopefully eve

First I would like to extend my condolences to the Family and Friends. My thoughts and prayers go out to you all. I work near the church where this service was being held. Standing outside watching the procession go down the street myself and co-workers couldn't help but to shed some tears. It's a very sad thing that has happened.
Second to everyone who is posting negative comments about this officer please be mindful his family and friends will be reading this and they have just lost a loved one. Everyone has the right to express their opinions just be mindful of how you go about doing so.
Thirdly unless you were there that night you have no idea what went on. The officer is not here to give his testimony of what happened. I'm sure the facts will come out however I find it very unlikely we will know the full story until the trial of this young man.
Keep in mind just because there is no record on this guy doesn't mean he wasn't doing anything wrong... he may just have never been caught.
Lastly I would like to thank those who do these thankless jobs every day to protect the people.

This man is still innocent until proven guilty. YOU would do well to remember that. Let's say that someone ''informed'' the police about you having a marijuana farm in your garage. Would that be true? You should save your radical judgements for the legal system. Rational thinking citizens would not be asking for Capitol Punishment based on very little evidence thus far. You don't know more than anyone else. At this point he has NOT been charged with narcotics possession, nor have they reported finding any....not that it matters. Having pot does not justify the police raid the way they handled it. They lost one of their own so obviously that is a bad plan. It isn't necessarily the shooters fault. There is a better way. We as citizens have the right to defend our homes. Maybe it was poor planning. Maybe it was too much adrenaline, not enough procedure...or maybe the procedures are faulty. Maybe the guy is a raving lunatic that shot a cop when they broke his door down. It still doesn't mean he is wrong. He was sleeping. He was startled, and most likely didn't hear the cops (if he is innocent.) The point is, take all of this in stride, absorb the facts as they come.

what happened. It is an ongoing investigation. According to the latest info in the paper, the police did announce and then knock in the door, wearing body armor and helmets with POLICE in big letters. They have not filed what they have found from the search yet, so you don't know if they found drugs or not. And I find it hard to believe that someone in a bedroom, could grab a gun, get out of the bedroom and into the area of the front door to shoot someone BEFORE the door was busted in. And watching this man on TV, his crying is phony, not one tear in all of his act. And lets not forget, unless the law has been changed, if someone breaks into your house, you have to retreat to an area furthest from the point of entry. Then if the person comes in there, and pay attention, THREATENS YOU, you can shoot him. You do not blindly just start shooting at any noise. And as far as "pot" not being worth it...if he was growing, how much could he produce in a garage annually? So, lets not second guess, unless you're going to second guess the suspect as well.

please read the other article. The police were in armor, labeled "POLICE" with badges showing. They were also wearing helmets, hardly plain clothes. They announced themselves prior to entering, and it happened at 8:30 PM, not in the middle of night.

For those "Monday Morning Quarterbacks", Chesapeake is accepting applications for new police recruits. Why don't you all apply, then you can see first hand what a cop's job is like. If you don't want to give your 9-5 Monday through Friday, higher paying job, try a ride-a-long or a citizen's police academy.

From a cop's wife point of view with 3 children myself, a husband and father are lost because he was simply doing his job, making a living doing what he loved to make a difference in the world and support his family. For those of you who have no idea what it is like to be in a situation like this, it is awfully bold to make such strong statements. Let's just all calm down and pray for Nicole and his 3 children who are suffering and have a long road ahead of them.

You really think first degree murder is not enough? Have you paid attention to the information released on this case at all? The defendant thought his home was being broken into a couple days prior to the actual police break-in. The police approached his home in plain clothes, did not announce themselves, and busted down the door, in the middle of the night, without probable cause. When they busted in his door, he did what any law abiding citizen with a firearm would do, he shot. They did not find any drugs, and even if they did, marijuana is no excuse for busting in the door of someone with no previous record. The police department made an extremely foolish decision on this and it cost an officer his life.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of the fallen officer. But there are ALOT of unanswered questions in this case. We cannot judge and prosecute souly on how we feel. and i am glad and thankful to see there are allot of free thinking people who are not media brainwashed in this area who are standing up for their beliefs. I pray that all the real truths will come to light in the case, and the proper actions will be taken.

bottom line - i pray for the men/women in blue that protect each and everyone of us and i pray most for the family who recently received a loss.. Your all in my thoughts and hope they get through this.. To know their husband/father/son died protecting them and their neighbors is a very honorable thing and they should be proud he did what did- sad and stinks but he died in the line of duty and we all should commence him!

I have read some of the sensitive and insensitive comments. First and foremost, I would like to say that I send my prayers out to the Shivers family and friends. I have several friends that are police officers and detectives, so I know how scarey it is to be associated with people who may not be here the next day considering what their jobs detail. I do agree with some of the comments posted as to figuring out a better way to handle certain situations as a police officer. Even though Mr. Shivers was doing his job, he too, had no idea what was on the other side of that door. I would have reacted the same way if I thought my house was being broken in to considering I have children to protect. In this particular case, that unidentified person happened to be a police officer. From the evidence so far, there is nothing to back up the reason for the warrant. Therefore, this could have been a case of he said, she said, and now a man has died because of this. There has to be a better way of saving lives and doing your job other than breaking down doors unidentified and taking the chance of being assumed you are a burglar. And let's say this officer was in fact a robber and the resident did

Seriously people.. Police Officers serve the community and that includes the citizens that reside within that community. This officer did his job and duty as an officer to protect everyone from the individual whom residing within that household. They got a tip from someone who obviously knew what he was talking about so in this, they got a warrant from the magistrate with probable cause upon the warrant, allowing her to issue the warrant, and went to house to serve the warrant. They only need to annouce their presence before knocking the door down.. LOOK IT UP! I dont think anyone needs to be on the indviduals side whose house got busted down because "he was growing illegal narcotics" and had a firearm within the presence of growing those narcotics.. Bottomlime, the officers did what they were suppose to do and Thank goodness the individual that pulled the trigger on the detective will never see the outside of a cage ever again: ) How could stand up for such a person? Thats it...

D.E., you are apparently significantly misinformed about the specifics of this case.

This was not a "split second decision" - this raid was several days in the making.

Someone chose to have this raid executed at a time when the house was occupied and to force entry into the house before announcing their presence. All with no physical evidence or criminal record.

The situation in which Officer Shivers was caught was created entirely by the actions of the police, and was entirely avoidable. This is not a trivial matter than can wait for a time and place you find more convenient.

All Chesapeake SWAT-related activities should be immediately suspended until there's been a review of the entire chain of command which let this fiasco take place.

What a tragedy! I will continue to pray for the officer's family. I used to work with Ryan Frederick and I am just so shocked that this happened. He was a sweet and caring person, this just doesnt make sense to me! My thoughts and prayers go out to all the lives that are forever changed in the blink of an eye......

Let me explain what daniel wants to know. He would like to know that the individual he is pulling over is swd2k. Why? Because he has read enough of swd2k hateful rants against police officers in general to know that this is a potential confrontation in the makings from Mr/MRs, "I don't like you, respect you, fear you, I will make your job as difficult as possible for you because I know it all, I know my right's and I as swd2k know that you are all out to get me. I believe swd2k has all the same rights I have. I aslo believe he/she has some serious personality problems. No sense of decency, to the dead, their families or friends to say the things he has said, and thank God the pilot had the backbone to draw the line between 1st ammendment rights and respect for the family of this officer.

I came to the story because my heart goes out to the wife and the kids, who now have to continue their lives without their husband and father. I'm really not sure what him doing his job now has to do with the fact he was murdered. That's it. Regardless on how or why the Police Dept. saw fit to execute the search warrant or where they got the information that there were criminal activity going on in that house; the point still remains that they did and it ended up with a heinious crime being committed, a life taken for nothing. My only question now is, why is the murderer only being charged with first degree murder and not capital murder of a police officer? When Officer Reeves was murdered 2 yrs ago, the person killing him was charged with a capital crime. Are the procecutors upgrading the charge or is it because the murderer is white, its only a first degree offense? One race gets the death penalty and the other gets 25 yrs? Where is the justice in that?

This is not the time and place for such discussion. There will be time and place for that later....just not now. Law enforcement make split second decisions that are forever second guessed ad nauseum.... To the big talkers....put your mouth were your bravado is!!! Sign the dotted line.....Law enforcement needs all you smart, wise folk......then we can Monday Morning QB everything you do in a media microscope.

Daniel says "It's a shame that the Pilot can't supply their names to law enforcement agencys so the cowards couldn't hide behind "pen names"."

Does Daniel suggest that swd2k and the like be arrested for expressing his views? There is that silly First Amendment that is supposed to protect speech whether popular or not. The other is that The Pilot who controls this board has it in it's power to censor or choose not to post their comments. I don't believe that swd2k's comments deserve such censorship. It is sad that Officer Shivers lost his life. One has to have sympathy for his family. However, this officer knew the risks just as a fireman knows that he can lose his life going out on a call. Life is sacred whether you are a police officer, fireman, or swd2k. I don't feel that an officers life or firemans life is worth any more or any less than mine. I think that may be part of swd2k's point. There still are unanswered questions in this case. I will withold judgement until all of the facts are out.