Teodoro “Teo” Valencia Jr.

How they died

Deadly force

Officers responded to a call of a male gunman holding up the restaurant. About three minutes later, the robbery suspect left through the kitchen where a police officer positioned outside the back of the restaurant ordered him to stop, police said. The man turned toward the officer and pointed a black semi-automatic handgun at him, police said. The officer shot and killed him.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Teodoro “Teo” Valencia Jr., and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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