At Rest

Deadly force
Dispatchers got a call about an armed man acting erratically in the road. Mercer County Deputies and West Virginia State Police responded near Route 71 in Montcalm. They found Dennis Claude Stanley in the roadway. According to police, Stanley refused several verbal commands to show his hands. He then tried to pull a gun from his pants. Stanley was shot and killed by deputies. Later, police determined that the gun was a handgun replica.
This record exists so that Dennis Claude Stanley, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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