Byron Harmon

How they died

Deadly force

Officers Harolton "Skip" Clayborn and Dustin Poncin shot Byron Harmon when he drove into two police cars while trying to leave a trailer park where he'd been visiting a friend. Residents of the Archway Manor mobile home park had called police at about 7 p.m. to report a suspicious car that had been parked for some time where the street dead ends. Clayborn and Poncin said they fired into the car because their safety was jeopardized, but Byron's friend who was in the car said Byron panicked and was just trying to get away. In 2004, Harmon's sister, Erika N. Nichols, 19, allegedly purchased a 9mm pistol with a silencer from an undercover detective and said she wanted to shoot the officer who'd killed her brother.

Why we remember them

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

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