At Rest

Deadly force
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office dispatched Deputy Sheriff Riley Hodges to conduct a well-being check based on a report that shots had been fired there earlier that day. Not long after his arrival, Hodges heard a fight and saw a woman with a bloody nose. Hodges entered the house and confronted Max Frye Jr., who was holding a snub-nose revolver. Rather than drop it as Hodges commanded, Frye fired a round, and Hodges fired at Frye, striking him eight times and killing him.
This record exists so that George “Max” McAfee Frye II, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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