Samuel Victor McLeod

How they died

Deadly force

An officer made a traffic stop of McLeod at a suspicious location (a street dead-ending at a school closed that day). On the basis of McLeod's appearance, behavior and physical evidence in the car, the officer suspected drug use. The suspect attempted to seize the officer's service weapon in a short physical struggle, and the officer shot the suspect at close range five times.

Why we remember them

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

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