Wenzola Rountree

How they died

Less-than-lethal force

Officers responded to a call reporting an unknown man in a backyard at 12:56 a.m. The man, Wenzola Rountree, was asking for help, talking to himself and had shed all his clothing. Officers and Patchogue Ambulance responded and had contacted him, when he stood up and ran into an unlocked house across the street. The occupants inside the home yelled for help after Rountree, who was unknown to them, entered. Officers entered and handcuffed him, and he died a short time later.

Why we remember them

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

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