Benjamin Mayoles Dykeman

How they died

Deadly force

A 4 a.m. traffic stop with an uncooperative Dykeman in an Accord resulted in his speeding away, striking a patrol car, crashing into a power pole, receiving multiple gunshots from the threatened officer, driving off again and striking a tree, then fleeing on foot and onto the grounds of an apartment complex, where he was discovered by a tracking K-9. He died in the hospital of the gunshot wounds.

Why we remember them

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

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