Patrick Gray Sharp

How they died

Suicide

Sharp drove a truck, loaded with he appears to have thought were explosives, to the McKinney Public Safety Building. He lit the truck on fire and ran for cover. Officers and firefighters tried to put out the fire. Sharp shot over 100 rounds at them. Officers shot Sharp in the arm. Sharp shot himself fatally in the head. Ranger A.P. Davidson investigated. Sharp had severe mental problems since youth, but learned to hide them as an adult.

Why we remember them

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

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