Gerald Rice

How they died

Deadly force

In the late afternoon somebody from Rice's house called deputies reporting that he was armed and suicidal. Two deputies came out and met Rice sitting in his garage. According to a lawsuit later filed by the family, one of the five officers shot Rice to death as he turned to reach for a beer, unnecessarily, and that deputy had a "documented history of unprovoked violence."

Why we remember them

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

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