Austin Riley

How they died

Deadly force

Riley's wife called police in shortly after midnight claiming her husband had tried to set their residence on fire, then locked himself in his room. Officers arrived and forced his door open, only to be confronted with the elderly Riley aiming a shotgun at them. He'd been bedridden and dependent on an oxygen tank for more than a year. Riley, who refused or could not understand their commands to drop the gun, was fatally shot.

Why we remember them

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

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