Walter Canez

How they died

Deadly force

A convenience store clerk flagged down an officer to tell him that a citizen had reported seeing a man waving a gun, police said. Officers Jeffrey Stover and Zachary Currier found a man matching the suspect's description and saw he had two guns inside his waistband. The man, later identified as Walter Canez, refused to show the officers his hands and he was shot and killed as he reached toward his waistband.

Why we remember them

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

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