Ronald Charles Newman

How they died

Deadly force

According to HPD, Officer H.M. Wagner stopped a blue Suburban. Newman exited the other and shot at the officer. The officer shot back. Newman drove away. He and the officer shot at each other as the officer pursued. Newman stopped his other and fired one more shot. The officer approached the Suburban. Wagner was dead, shot through the head. The shooting was recorded by the HPD Public Affairs Division, but did not appear in documents sent to Fatal Encounters.

Why we remember them

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

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