Baby, You Have a Face Like Drug Raid
I’d bet things around the Gillis household were rocky for a few days after this article came out…
Undercover officers make hundreds of raids each year — and they will say that nothing is routine.
That was never more clear than on the night of April 30, when a narcotics team moved in on a suspected drug house on East Rich Street, NBC 4’s Marcus Thorpe reported.
The raid ended in gunfire and two officers being injured. Two suspects were taken into custody.
Those detectives are now out of the hospital and spoke to NBC 4 on Wednesday.
John Gillis and Anthony Garrison are no rookies. In fact, they’ve logged more than 20 years on the force — 14 of which they spent working side-by-side on local roads.
But for the first time in their careers, gunshots connected with them on April 30. Harrison was shot in the arm and hip and Gillis was struck in the leg.
Both officers spent significant time in the hospital, undergoing surgeries. During the weeks of recovery, the officers said the concern and well-wishes are bringing them back.
“I think I thought about it when I looked at my wife’s face. It’s kind of upsetting for me,” Gillis said.
Of course, he meant that he hadn’t accepted the severity of the trauma until he saw someone he loved and realized he could have lost that person. But what he said was looking at his wife’s face made think about getting shot in the leg, and that his wife’s face is “kind of upsetting.”