Michael Lee Ross Jr.

How they died

Deadly force

Officers were called at about 5:12 a.m. to a report of a stabbing in the parking lot of a QuikTrip. Police said a man stabbed a woman and then fled to a creek area. Officers administered first aid to the woman, who was killed. Her identity has been withheld by police. The officers found the man, who reportedly still had a knife, in a nearby creek and told him to drop the weapon. Police said the man did not comply and attempted to harm himself with the knife. The officers used multiple bean bag rounds on the man who at one point turned toward the officer while holding the knife, police said. The officers shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Michael Lee Ross Jr., and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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