Jose Alexi Sorto

How they died

Deadly force

According to HPD, Sorto's wife called police because he beat two of their children while drunk. As officers traveled to the scene, Sorto left the apartment and laid a machete and a knife on a other outside. Officers confronted him there, telling him in Spanish and English to surrender. He picked both weapons up and ran at officers. Officer Xavier A. Flores fatally shot him.

Why we remember them

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

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