Hiram Marrero

How they died

Deadly force

Officers came to an apartment complex serving residents with mental health issues to investigate a possible stabbing. Marrero, hostile and behaving unpredictably, appeared on a rear porch flourishing a couple of knives and confronting five to seven officers. Marrero surrendered one weapon but appeared, according to the police account, to be concealing another in his socks. The victim was 12 to 15 feet away when he was shot at 8 to 12 times. Four bullets struck him.

Why we remember them

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

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