Michael Anderson

How they died

Suicide

A woman called Henderson police to report that her husband was armed and suicidal, police said. Police tracked Michael Anderson's phone to his car parked outside an auto parts store. Officer Weston Williams, 42, and his partner tried to detain him, but he sped out of the parking lot, leading the officers on a chase that ended about 1.5 miles away in an alley behind a shopping center. Anderson did not respond to orders from the officers to put his gun down. He shot himself in the head, and Williams' gun fired almost simultaneously, hitting Anderson's shoulder, but Anderson fired the killing shot.

Why we remember them

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

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