Shamikle De’Lawrence Jackson

How they died

Deadly force

Police responded to a possible hostage situation at 8:44 a.m. A man called 911 to report there were hostages inside an apartment and that somebody had been injured by a person with a machete. When police arrived, they knocked on the apartment door, and a woman answered the door and was escorted out of the residence. Officers ordered anybody else in the apartment to come out. They allegedly were confronted by a man with a machete, who failed to comply with orders to drop it. One officer reportedly tried to use a Taser on the man, but when he was not incapacitated, an officer shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Shamikle De’Lawrence Jackson, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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