Sean Gillispie

How they died

Deadly force

Sean Gillispie, 19, was shot and killed by a Knoxville police officer as authorities tried to break up a crowd that had gathered in the parking lot of a downtown convenience store. Police were dispatched to check out a report that a "large crowd of people" was being loud and disorderly in the parking area, police said. Gillispie was shot once in the chest after allegedly "going for a gun" while in the back seat of a car that had been approached by Officers Jason Keck and David Ogle.

Why we remember them

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

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