By Amy Couteé
The Virginian-Pilot
Chesapeake
Officers were wearing body armor and helmets marked "POLICE" when they climbed the three brick steps at 932 Redstart Ave. last week to serve a narcotics warrant, a department spokeswoman says.
According to Christi Golden, officers did a "knock and announce" - in which they approach the door and declare their presence before entering.
Shots were fired from inside the house and police narcotics Detective Jarrod Shivers was hit, Golden said. On Wednesday, the medical examiner's office said Shivers died from a single gunshot wound to his arm and chest.
A confidential informant told Chesapeake police that Ryan David Frederick was growing marijuana in a detached garage beside the house he lived in, according to court documents.
Documents, which were made available Wednesday, said police did find marijuana and drug paraphernalia there.
Frederick, 28 , was arrested in Shivers' death and was charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
He said in a jailhouse interview that he had no idea a police officer was on the other side of the door when he opened fire.
"No, sir," he told WAVY-TV 10. "I just wish I knew who they were," he said. "I didn't want any trouble."
Frederick said he was in bed when he heard someone trying to come into the home. He said his home had been burglarized two or three days earlier. Frederick has declined three requests to speak to The Virginian-Pilot.
After the shooting, a second search warrant was executed . Police seized a Bersa "Firestorm" .380-caliber handgun, three bullet casings and ammunition from the house, according to court documents. Police also took a broken door, a television set, a pry bar, a battering ram, a shoe and a flashlight.
In the neighborhood Wednesday, Frederick's neighbors described him as quiet and unassuming.
Residents along Redstart Avenue remain stunned by Shivers' death.
Neighbor Sandra Brooks, 31, said she is tormented by what she heard. The screams from anguished police officers were "worse than the sound of panic," she said. They keep her up at night. She was in the front yard with her dog a few houses away when police descended on Frederick's house. She stood on her porch watching and wondering what was happening.
"I think about them down there screaming and then about that officer's family," she said Wednesday.
"I don't think he would have hurt a flea," mail carrier Carlton Pugh Sr. said of Frederick as he stuffed mail into boxes along the street. "He's a nice guy."
Pugh said he has worked his route on Redstart for seven years and known Frederick for four.
"This kid down here, he was not selling drugs," said Jon McReynolds, a neighbor two doors down who heard police enter Frederick's home.
"I heard a bam," but no warnings from police, McReynolds said. "There was no police sirens, nothing." Standing on his porch Wednesday and pointing to the spot on the sidewalk where emergency crews tried to save Shivers, McReynolds said nothing adds up in his mind.
"It's a tragedy; it's two lives wasted, and for what?"
Detectives had gone to the house looking for marijuana, packaging materials and scales, according to an affidavit for a search warrant issued Jan. 15. Police verified that Frederick lived at the address through phone and DMV records, according to the affidavit.
A document filed Wednesday in Chesapeake Circuit Court and obtained by WVEC-TV 13 says that detectives found an undisclosed amount of marijuana, six lights, three transformers, smoking devices and a fan among other things at Frederick's home.
Amy Couteé, (757) 222-5216,
amy.coutee@pilotonline.com
A police spokes- woman said officers did a "knock and announce" - in which police approach the door and declare their presence before entering. police account where he was hit
On Wednesday, the medical examiner's office said Detective Jarrod Shivers, above, died from a single gunshot wound to his arm and chest. some items seized
Police seized a Bersa "Firestorm" .380-caliber handgun, three bullet casings and ammunition from the house, according to court records. View the search warrants and results of searches at PilotOnline.com. memorial fundraisers
The Police Emerald Society will hold a memorial fundraiser at 7 tonight at Paradocks East Coast Grille, 801 Eden Way North, Chesapeake. Donations of $10 will be accepted at the door. Proceeds will be given to Nicole Shivers, Detective Jarrod Shivers' wife. The event will include pipes and drums, a silent auction, a raffle, and food and beverages.
Chilled Ponds Ice Sports Complex, 1416 Stephanie Way in Chesapeake, will hold the first of a series of memorial skating session benefits for Shivers' family from 7 to 9 p.m. today. A $10 donation per person will be accepted.
A memorial motorcycle ride to benefit the Shivers family is set for Friday, sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 9, 110 Kempsville Road. Registration will begin at 10 a.m. at the lodge. The ride will begin at 11:30 a.m. A buffet lunch will be held at Bullies on Battlefield Boulevard. Cost is $10 per rider or passenger.
