Houston police reports of a shoot-out during a 1993 narcotics raid were contradicted Friday by a lawsuit that accuses officers of killing an unarmed 63-year-old man as he awoke in his bed.

Five relatives of the dead man, Lee Caldwell Jr., filed the wrongful death lawsuit. It seeks $20 million from 10 raiding officers, the city of Houston and the Harris County Organized Crime Narcotics Task Force.

Officers were cleared by a county grand jury after the Feb. 25, 1993 raid on the Caldwell home in the 4100 block of Alvin.

Investigators said police shot the retired city sanitation worker after they were met by a shotgun blast as they kicked in the door of his bedroom. One officer was wounded.

The lawsuit said, "Caldwell was asleep in his bed (and) posed no danger to defendants or to other members of the public at the time he was shot and killed."

Caldwell had no criminal record. The lawsuit says police allegedly found a small quantity of marijuana and $4,634 in cash in his bedroom, although no one was arrested. Attorney Sandra Jackson Sheppard contends in the lawsuit that police relied only on the word of an informant of "unspecified reputation," and that they had no grounds for the raid warrant.

The Police Department said there would be no comment until the lawsuit has been reviewed.