The Region - News from Sept. 10, 1985

The mother of a Malibu man killed during a drug raid last Oct. 26 has filed a $20-million lawsuit in Los Angeles federal court, charging that her son’s civil rights were violated when 19 heavily armed law enforcement officers went to his home. Authorities said Glenn Gorio, 26, was shot to death after he fired a shot at officers who stormed into the Mulholland Highway home. A sheriff’s spokesman said officers responded because as much as “a pound of cocaine a week” was being sold at the home. In her lawsuit, Nina Gorio charged that such information was false and that no drugs for sale were found in the home. Among the defendants named were Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman Block, Malibu Municipal Judge John J. Merrick, who signed the search warrant, and the We Tip organization, which allegedly provided information about Gorio to authorities.