LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — The call for additional details in a deadly raid last month a growing even louder.
The raid was at Bryan Malinowski's home in west Little Rock last month. Police said Malinowski shot at agents and they returned fire — Malinowski was struck by the gunfire and later died.
Now the calls for additional details gained even more traction on Monday after U.S. House of Representatives Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach.
Jordan asked for all documents and communications relating to the search warrant, including an unredacted copy of the affidavit and all audio recordings from the raid.
This comes after U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton released a statement last Friday that the involved ATF agents were not wearing body cameras during the search warrant.
It is ATF policy to wear body cameras during search warrants. The Department of Justice said in a statement this policy is in the process of a phased implementation and it has not been implemented in Arkansas.
The DOJ said this policy has been fully deployed in Detroit, Phoenix, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Seattle, Denver, and Kansas City.
"It becomes less apparent to me why they did what they did, not more apparent. There's more questions and fewer answers," said Bud Cummings, the attorney of the Malinowski family.
Cummins is working to find out why exactly ATF raided Malinowski's home — he said to his knowledge Malinowski didn't break any laws.
"He's legally entitled to sell these guns and he did. He's not obligated to track them or find out where they go later," said Cummins.
In the redacted search warrant, ATF was conducting the search to find guns that Malinowski was selling without a dealers license.
"There's no rule about how many guns you can sell or the time period you can sell them, [or] how much money you can make. It's anybody's guess," said Cummins.
According to the affidavit, Malinowski bought more than 150 guns between 2021 and 2024. Some of those guns were found to be used in six separate crimes.
ATF said that it is not commenting on a pending investigation.