William Everett Corson

How they died

Deadly force

Corson had been drinking and arguing with relatives, and had sprayed his girlfriend with bear repellant before he began shooting with a handgun, a shotgun and what sounded like a fully automatic weapon.The man fired more than 100 rounds at officers and neighboring houses. Investigators working at the scene Monday also determined that the fire, which destroyed the house, was started by Corson with a Molotov cocktail-style device. The fire drove Corson to a back door, where he was fatally shot by one of the deputies surrounding the home.

Why we remember them

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

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