The 5th Circuit Says a Houston Cop Reasonably Killed 2 Innocent People Falsely Accused of Selling Heroin ^12.3%

Reason.com - By Jacob Sullum - 7/2/2026, 9:10 PM

Negativity Bias 22.5% - Biased Writer Voice 21.3% - Confirmation Bias 19.8%

Former Houston narcotics officer Gerald Goines is serving a 60-year sentence for his role in a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple, Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas, whom he falsely accused of selling heroin. But the officer who actually killed Tuttle and Nicholas was Felipe Gallegos, whose justification for the shots he... more