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Frank Steponaitis

United States · Aged 55 · Died 12/11/2011
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Steponaitis was reported as possibly suicidal at an L station on a Sunday night. Responding officers found him with a gun to his own head but he then pulled out a second weapon and pointed it at officers. Threatened, police fatally shot him.

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