Emanuel David Joshua Oates

How they died

Deadly force

Around 4:15 p.m., an officer was investigating a crash in the Aldi parking lot when a Dollar Tree employee said a shoplifting had just occurred in the store and pointed out the alleged thief. As the man tried to flee, an officer grabbed the man by the arm, and he allegedly pulled out a concealed machete. The man ran into a nearby grocery store, and officers told him to drop the weapon, and he did not, and he was shot and killed.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Emanuel David Joshua Oates, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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