Edgar “Justin” Meyer

How they died

Suicide

Edgar "Justin" Meyer shot and killed his ex-wife (or girlfriend?) and her boyfriend in an apparent custody dispute. Meyer and his current wife left the scene with his son, 5, in Meyer's truck, beginning a multi-agency manhunt involving several pursuits and gunfire exchanges through three counties. The Meyers eventually fled into the woods on foot, where the couple was found dead, reportedly from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. The child was unharmed. Meyer had apparently been a drug informant for the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics two years earlier, when agents were trying to catch a physician prescribing painkillers outside of his medical practice. Meyer's knees had reportedly been crushed in a childhood accident.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Edgar “Justin” Meyer, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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