Christopher A. “Chris” Deason

How they died

Suicide

Chris Deason reportedly killed himself during a standoff. Police responded at around 10 p.m. after a woman called and said her son-in-law had threatened her with a loaded gun. A Hillsboro officer stopped a speeding other and learned the driver was Deason's father-in-law, heading to the scene to try and diffuse the situation. Police contacted Deason's wife, who said she and her two children had barricaded themselves in a downstairs bedroom with her husband upstairs. Police set up a perimeter and heard a gunshot from inside the house. The Hillsboro officer helped the woman and children out a window. A tactical team entered the home at around 1:30 a.m. and found Deason in an upstairs bedroom dead from a gunshot wound to the head.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Christopher A. “Chris” Deason, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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