BELL COUNTY, Texas — A Bell County jury is just one day closer to deciding whether Marvin Guy will spend the rest of his life in prison or walk as a free man.
Guy is charged with capital murder for allegedly shooting and killing Killeen police detective Chuck Dinwiddie during a no-knock search warrant operation on May 9, 2014.
On Wednesday, Nov. 15, prosecutors admitted audio of inmate phone calls between Guy and a New York Times reporter, Kevin Sack.
The calls were recorded in March of 2016, when Guy had already been in jail for 22 months.
In the recordings, Guy told Sack that before the operation, a rape had occurred in the neighborhood. Guy said the perpetrators were able to go through the victim's front room window. He told Sack he put his chair behind the front door some nights because he was paranoid.
Throughout the conversation, Guy claimed police tampered with evidence.
Guy said he fired toward the street during the warrant operation and believed Dinwiddie had been shot by “friendly fire”.
"They did something to alter evidence in my case," Guy said to Sack.
Guy then explained how he fired a .45 revolver outside his window. He said police had a 9mm on them and used it the morning of the raid.
Lanell Waley, a firearms examiner with the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Lab testified and can identify and match bullets to a particular gun.
In her findings, she matched Guy's 9mm pistol to two bullets found on the scene, one recovered from Dinwiddie and one from another officer.
The jury also listened to the final recorded interview with Guy. This one was more intense as the four-hour interview was more of an interrogation, trying to pinpoint the holes in Guy's story.
The night before the raid, Guy said he saw two people watching his house outside and was already on edge.
Detective Sharon Blink questioned why Guy didn't call the cops.
"I knew how to protect myself," Guy told her.
Guy claimed he did a perimeter search outside his home at 2:39 a.m. that night. He said he grabbed his guns under his trash can and brought them inside.
Guy admitted to firing and shooting outside when he heard his window breaking and glass flying. He says he dropped his gun and ran outside after.
Investigators asked why Guy would drop his gun, run outside and leave his girlfriend inside if he was worried about a potential threat.
Guy admitted to barricading his front door when he didn't feel safe.
Blink also pried Guy about why he had a target practice paper behind his couch.
Guy says he went to the shooting range with his friends but didn't admit to having good accuracy.
In cross-examination, Blink told the defense she didn't know what happened the morning of the raid, but only the protocol of what's supposed to be done.
The defense brought up how in the interviews, Guy repeatedly said he never heard "police search warrant", and if he had, he would not have shot.
6 News will be in the courtroom with more information on the trial as it continues.
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