LeAnna Westfall

How they died

Suicide

IPD officer Richard Langdon reportedly shot LeAnna Westfall seconds after she shot herself in the chest with a handgun. Westfall had led HPD officer Tom Millison on a slow-speed chase until she drove over stop sticks northeast of Inman. Langdon was one of several officers who responded. According to police, Langdon had his finger on the trigger of his shotgun when Westfall shot herself while approaching him. He reportedly pulled the trigger as a reaction, striking Westfall in her hand. Westfall died about an hour later. Langdon was cleared of criminal wrongdoing. Millison was fired about a week after Westfall's death for his involvement five days before the shooting for an incident in his patrol car with an unidentified woman.

Why we remember them

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

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