Willard “Butch” Forrest Hargrove Jr.

How they died

Deadly force

Officers responded to a domestic violence call involving Hargrove. They told him, armed with a rifle and a pistol, to drop his weapons. He shot at them once with a .22-caliber rifle. He was shot in the leg, then died four weeks later.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Willard “Butch” Forrest Hargrove Jr., and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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