Cameron Lupton

How they died

Deadly force

Lupton was an Afghanistan War veteran with a history of mental illness. Police were in the process of conducting a well-being check on Lupton when they received a call he was attacking his father and step-mother with a knife at their residence. Upon their arrival, one officer tasered Lupton, to no effect, after which the second officer shot and killed him. Lupton's father and step-mother survived the attack.

Why we remember them

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

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