James Haynes

How they died

Deadly force

Around 5:30 p.m., officers responded to a 911 hang-up call. When officers got there, they heard someone yelling for help. When they approached the apartment, they found a man with a knife. Officers ordered him to drop the knife, but he did not. He went toward the apartment window when an officer attempted to incapacitate him with a Taser to no effect. Officers shot at the man, still holding a knife, as he was coming back into the apartment through the broken window. Officers forced their way into the apartment as the man again confronted the officers with a knife. They shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that James Haynes, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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