Ronald Lowery

How they died

Deadly force

Lowery, with a long record of minor crimes, was shot to death by local police after leading them on an erratic chase in a stolen car, then switching over to a van with a female acquaintance and a 16-year-old girl. Police fired on him 30 times. They claimed that Lowery fired on them twice with a shotgun then used the van as a weapon, claims that witnesses disputed. City prosecutors mulled criminal charges against the police for more than a year before ruling them justified. In the interim two of them were awarded Silver Medals of Valor and three others Certificates of Merit for their roles in the killing.

Why we remember them

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

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