Anthony Cornelius Grier

Deadly force

At 4:30 a.m., police responded to a call of a robbery in progress at a 7-Eleven. Police had been alerted that a robber was striking repeatedly in the neighborhood. Two officers were approaching that store in one car with its lights off, police said. They encountered Anthony Grier, who matched the description of the robber, walking in a parking lot by a building that used to be an auto body shop. They turned lights on him. He refused to comply with their orders and reached into his waistband, and one of the officers shot and killed him.