Scout Schultz

How they died

Deadly force

Police responded to a 911 call at an apartment building about a person with a knife and a gun at 11:17 p.m. When officers arrived, they made contact with Scout Schultz, who officers said was armed with a knife. Officers said they made multiple attempts to get Schultz to drop the knife, and Schultz was shot and killed. Fatal Encounters apologizes for the occasional use of birth names for transgender people. Police and news media often report the birth names instead of the real names, so we have to have both in our name field to prevent duplications in the dataset. It's disrespectful, and we're sorry about the necessity.

Why we remember them

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

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