The gunman, seeing the plainclothes officer outside the window, opened fire as the three other officers burst through the apartment door and began shooting.
The police report on the raid says that when officers burst into the apartment, both men tried to throw away cocaine they had been using.
Visitors are now checked at the door, a circumstance that allowed the gunman who killed the two officers to burst through in 1998.
After failing to make contact with the assailant during a seven-hour standoff, officers burst through the door.
Suddenly two other officers burst into the room with the warrants.
Seven other officers burst into the house.
The officers burst into the room and more than 30 shots were fired, all by the officers.
Prescott fired five fatal shots, even as fellow officers burst through glass partitions.
The officers burst into the room and found Lepidus dead.
Then the door to his compartment flew back as though blown open by a bomb, and two police officers burst inside.