Roger Wayne Reed

How they died

Suicide

Reed reportedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound when deputies trying to serve an arrest warrant entered a mobile home. Officers said they heard a gunshot when they were inside and found Reed lying on a bed with what appeared to be a single gunshot wound to the head. A gun was reportedly lying within reach. Reed was transported to St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, where he died later that day.

Why we remember them

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

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