Arturo Yobani-Torrez Valdez

How they died

Deadly force

A man smashed the windows of a house where an 83-year-old man lived alone. The suspect forced his way inside and began ransacking the home, Beck said, then took the older man hostage. Some neighbors grabbed baseball bats and knives, police said, and were getting ready to try to rescue the resident when two officers from the LAPD's Hollenbeck Division arrived at the scene. The officers ran inside and saw the man holding a knife to the victim's neck. The suspect "began to do things that indicated that he was going to kill the victim." One of the officers shot and killed the suspect.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Arturo Yobani-Torrez Valdez, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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