Austin Dean Heights

How they died

Deadly force

Two clerks at a BP gas station said a man walked in carrying a rifle, used the restroom, loaded backpack with soda and beef jerky and left. He didn't threaten anyone inside, the clerks said. He then crossed the highway toward the Kiwanis Recreation Area. Officers found the man on a raft on the Minnesota River, and pursued him in boats. The man reportedly shot at the officers, and the officers shot and killed him as he left the raft at the riverbank.

Why we remember them

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

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