Michael Grimaldo

How they died

Deadly force

Police approached a van parked outside a bowling alley, according to a Westminster police spokesman. The van was rocking and an officer asked a man inside the other to step out. Instead, the man jumped into the driver's seat, gunned the engine and attempted to run down the officer, police said. The officer fired at the van. The van got away, and a few minutes later, a person called police and said a bleeding man had stopped his van. The first officer at that scene ordered Grimaldo to show his hands. Grimaldo refused, then "lunged forward to grasp for something from under the seat of his car." He was shot and killed.

Why we remember them

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

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