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Sherman Evans

United States · Aged 63 · Died 06/27/2016
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Police found Evans with a gun on a walkway between two apartment buildings, police said. Officers ordered him to drop the gun, but he refused and raised it, police said. The officers opened fire and killed Evans.

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