Colin Rutter

How they died

Deadly force

Local police responded to reports of a man threatening children with a baseball bat. Rutter, said to be both alcoholic and bipolar, was the man shouting obscenities at neighbors and wielding the bat. When officers arrived Rutter swung the bat near their heads, was shot with pepper spray and bean-bag rounds, and supposedly taunted the police "Put real bullets in it." He was fatally shot in the chest shortly after.

Why we remember them

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

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