Jovany Mercado-Bedolla

How they died

Deadly force

About 9 p.m., police were called to where Jovany Mercado-Bedolla was wielding a knife and approached a group of people. The person who called police said the man appeared disoriented. Four Ogden Police officers in three patrol cars arrived shortly after. When they approached Mercado-Bedolla, he showed the knife and ignored officers' repeated orders to drop it, and then started approaching the officers. Officers Brandon Sevenski, Nigil Bailey, Karson Garcia and John Poulsen shot and killed him. Video available shows Mercado-Bedolla was walking slowly toward the officers and was behind a fence until the moment he was shot and killed.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Jovany Mercado-Bedolla, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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