Evan E. Williams Jr.

How they died

Deadly force

Police told them officers were responding to a report of a distraught man with a gun on Ptarmigan Road. Upon arriving on the scene, the man, later identified as Williams, stepped onto the porch brandishing a rifle, troopers said. Police ordered him to drop the weapon, but Williams instead pointed it at the officers, who opened fire, killing him.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Evan E. Williams Jr., and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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