Peter Sablich

How they died

Deadly force

Five days after his release from four months in a mental health facility, Sablich attracted three local officers when he set a fire near a gas line in his house. He held a seven-inch knife and refused to relinquish it even after being pepper-sprayed and shot with bean-bag rounds. When one of the officers slipped on ice, Sablich made an aggressive move at him, and he was fatally shot.

Why we remember them

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

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